4 months later, around half of COVID-19 patients have lingering symptoms

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French researchers followed up a group of 478 COVID-19 patients four months after they'd cleared the disease and found just over half (51 per cent) reported new-onset symptoms. Fatigue was the most common, reported by around a third of respondents, followed by problems with thinking, reported by around a fifth, followed by breathing problems, reported by around a sixth. Lung scans were used to assess damage in 171 patients, almost two-thirds of whom had lung abnormalities.