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Dr. Anthony Fauci said understanding the long-term effects of Covid-19 is “a work in progress.”
“We are learning, literally, every week and every month,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said during a George Washington University webinar on Wednesday.
Many coronavirus survivors have reported weeks and even months of symptoms after the first onset of infection.
“If you look at the people who were sick, but didn’t require hospitalization,” Fauci said, “when you look at the percentage of them — that actually recover, and recover within two to three weeks – a substantial proportion of them don’t feel right.”
Common complaints are often fatigue, muscle aches and brain fog, along with more “subtle, insidious” effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems, he said.
“They may be reversable and they may completely clear after a while, but we don’t know that, so we’d better be careful,” Fauci said. “Just because a person survives… that there may be a certain percent of people who might serious residual effects.”
“We need to follow that,” he added.
Watch part of Dr. Fauci’s conversation with George Washington University:
