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<p>All over the world, the rates of death and hospitalization from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-could-be-the-only-way-to-end-the-covid-19-pandemic-for-good">COVID </a>keep dropping. But our successful mitigation of the worst outcomes of the 33-month-old pandemic belie a growing crisis.</p>
<p>More and more people are surviving COVID and staying out of the hospital, but more and more people are <em>also</em> living with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/long-covid-scientists-explain-cells-that-spawn-rogue-anto">long-term symptoms</a> of COVID. Fatigue. Heart problems. Stomach problems. Lung problems. Confusion. Symptoms that can last for months or even a year or more <em>after</em> the infection clears.</p>
<p>As many as 21 percent of Americans who caught the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-covid-19-mutations-could-make-infected-people-sick-for-a-longer-time">SARS-CoV-2 virus</a> this summer ended up suffering from long COVID starting four weeks after infection, according to <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.04.22279588v1.full">a new study</a> from City University of New York.</p>
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
All over the world, the rates of death and hospitalization from COVID keep dropping. But our successful mitigation of the worst outcomes of the 33-month-old pandemic belie a growing crisis.
More and more people are surviving COVID and staying out of the hospital, but more and more people are also living with long-term symptoms of COVID. Fatigue. Heart problems. Stomach problems. Lung problems. Confusion. Symptoms that can last for months or even a year or more after the infection clears.
As many as 21 percent of Americans who caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus this summer ended up suffering from long COVID starting four weeks after infection, according to a new study from City University of New York.
