This will help us better understand the varied roads to recovery and perhaps how to treat those suffering from long COVID.īut why did these patients develop ‘Long COVID’ in the first place? Is there something in these patients that predisposed them to get hit hard with lingering symptoms? Another newly awarded American Lung Association and NHLBI-supported study is looking at imaging data collected in many patients long before they were infected with COVID. The REACH study will use surveys, interviews and in-person testing to gather information about their family experience and how COVID patients receive healthcare over the first year they are discharged from the hospital. Hough’s team to track patients previously hospitalized with COVID-19 across the United States for a longer period than the original study was designed. This partnership leverages a prospective cohort of over1,300 patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 in 44 hospitals across the United States.Īdditional research funding from the American Lung Association allows Dr. Terri Hough, is leading a partnership with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) within the National Institutes of Health called the Recovery after COVID-19 Hospitalization (REACH) study. One of the newly announced members of the American Lung Association research team, Dr. These lingering symptoms are causing massive disruptions to their daily lives, affecting their ability to work, return to activities, or enjoying food and drink – all which are critical to quality of life. It is currently estimated that more than 13 million Americans are living with long COVID. If this sounds like you, you’re not alone. Long COVID presents as persistent symptoms ranging from mild headaches and general malaise to more serious problems such as extreme fatigue, difficulty concentrating and shortness of breath. If you contracted COVID-19, you might still be experiencing this phenomenon long after the acute infection has passed.
Over 40 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19 and while they eventually recovered, many survivors experienced life-altering changes long after the virus passed through their system, lingering symptoms which many are calling “ long COVID." Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and it is painfully clear that it is not going away anytime soon.
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