A look at the numbers
Per USA Today, the study comes from researchers at King’s College London, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. The study’s researchers asked COVID-19 patients from the U.S., U.K. and Sweden about their symptoms through a smartphone app survey.
The study found 13% of 4,000 participants reported symptoms that lasted more than 28 days. Meanwhile, 4% reported symptoms for eight weeks and 2% reported symptoms for more than 12 weeks, according to USA Today.
Study co-author Dr. Christina Astley, a physician scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, told USA Today: “If you think about it, 1 in 20 people who have COVID-19 will have symptoms lasting eight weeks or more.”
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In early May, a wing of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center was eerily empty. The space had been cleared of patients as the pandemic raged. But it wasn’t going to waste.
Inside, a group of nurse practitioners were playing a game of digital tag. Lauren Chrzanowski, who has type 1 diabetes, was wearing a continuous glucose monitor, an implant with a transmitter that sends real-time glucose measurements to a dedicated receiver when they’re close enough, anyway. On that day, she was trying to figure out just how far away her CGM could be from its receiver and still work.
Research from US-based scientists found that in the summer of 2020 when a mandate to wear masks in public areas was enforced, there was a ten per cent rise in the amount of people using coverings.