“In individuals who are young and otherwise healthy, who don’t require hospitalization but do get sick and symptomatic enough to be in bed for a week or two or three and then get better, they clear the virus—they have residual symptoms for weeks and sometimes months,” Fauci said at an American Society for Microbiology briefing, as reported by CNN.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb RELATED: For more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter. Doctors are still discovering the long-lasting symptoms and complications of a coronavirus infection. Long-haul COVID patients have reported fatigue, muscle aches, neurological effects, and countless other symptoms months after contracting the virus. According to Fauci, the situation could get even worse. As he said at the briefing, many of these patients “have a substantially high proportion of cardiovascular abnormalities,” which suggests the potential for worsening heart problems down the line. “These are people that supposedly recovered from COVID-19,” Fauci noted. And they are often the young people who may have believed they were not at significant risk for a coronavirus infection, or at least not for these potentially life-altering complications. Given the developing studies about the havoc coronavirus can wreak on the human body, even in patients who do not appear to be deathly ill, Fauci stressed the importance of making sure everyone knows that young people need to be as concerned about getting sick as anyone else. Just because they may be less likely to be hospitalized does not mean they will be able to avoid the long-term symptoms that have plagued so many COVID patients. “I’ll guarantee you if we have this conversation again, six months to a year from now, we’ll be reviewing the literature about talking about the long-term deleterious effects of non-hospitalized patients,” Fauci said. And for some of the more persistent coronavirus complications, discover The 98 Longest Lasting COVID Symptoms You Need to Know About.
