COVID symptoms: What does ‘medium COVID’ mean?

Experts have been expressing concern about “long COVID-19” for years now, signaling the harmful long-term side effects of a COVID-19 infection.

But there seems to be another type of COVID to monitor – “medium COVID.”

• Details: So what exactly is “medium COVID”? Well, NPR’s Nina Feldman described it as a time when you suffer from COVID-19 symptoms after infection, but these symptoms will not leave you “bedridden or unable to perform daily functions.”
• “Medium COVID” describes the Americans “trapped somewhere in between,” she wrote.
• It is for people who experience persistent symptoms of COVID-19 for a few weeks instead of the month-long experience with prolonged COVID-19.

What they say: “There could be more to helping people understand that it is not always a quick return right after the first infection,” Dr. Ben Abramoff, Director of Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, told NPR. “This is still a very significant viral infection, and sometimes it’s just a more gradual recovery process than people’s previous viral diseases.”

The bigger picture: It is clear that a COVID-19 infection does not go away immediately for some and that coronavirus can have long lasting symptoms.

• Prolonged COVID-19 symptoms often include brain fog, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, fatigue, and COVID-19 symptoms that “were so severe that many people were unable to work.” Self.com.
• In fact, a new study has been published in The Lancet Public Health Found feelings of depression and anxiety can last 1.5 years after your initial COVID-19 infection, indicating that prolonged COVID-19 symptoms can affect your mental health.