Exactly how many people have made Covid long?

Before the pandemic, Lyth Hishmeh, a 26-year-old living in Camberley, England, was always looking for something to keep him busy. He was working as a software engineer and was doing side research on AI while he was making plans to start a new company. He was juggling four or five textbooks at a time. “I couldn’t stand still,” he says.

All of this was interrupted on March 13, 2020, when he was sent home from work with an alleged case Covid-19. The symptoms were mild but well known: cough, fever, shortness of breath. Within two weeks, they calmed down, so Hishmeh went to buy food. In the store, his heart began to run; he fainted and took a deep breath. “They looked like hearts.” He ignored her and got on the bus home. But the same feeling came back again, this time worse. He stopped the bus, got off, and pointed to a police car before it fell to the ground. He was taken to hospital, had ultrasounds and was diagnosed with Covid-19 pneumonia. The counselor said he was fine, and was discharged.

But Hishmeh was not well. In the following months Covid developed all the strange and weak symptoms that have come to characterize the condition known as long: brain fog, severe fatigue, heart palpitations. Going to the bathroom was a struggle. Hishmeh stayed at home for a month, until October 2020. Covid couldn’t even see a movie on the worst of his long days. He went to the emergency room more than 10 times. “I would cry and beg,‘ Just fix it, do something, ’” he says.

Today, 16 months after being infected, Hishmeh may leave the house, but he is not yet fully recovered. He has been unable to return to work, and has new food allergies. He also has post-tachycardia syndrome when his heart stands up. “I’m not fully recovered,” he says. “It was really awesome. It’s a tremendous improvement in where I am now. But where I am now would probably be the end of the world for a normal person.”

Hishmeh Covid is one of the millions of people around the world who have long. They are stuck in a limbo of life limitation while scientists make an effort to understand the mysterious state. But while Covid patients like Hishmeh continue to struggle with their disease, health authorities are struggling with some basic questions about long Covid.

To find out what Covide’s long-standing problem is, we need to know how many people are in a situation like Hishmeh. This number is surprisingly difficult to determine. The numbers mentioned in the media vary tremendously, according to the aforementioned study. So what is the real figure?

Some calculations have been placed on the more conservative side. An examination, As part of the Covid Symptom Study using researchers gathered at King’s College London using the ZOE Covid App, a survey of 4 million people was conducted between 25 March 2020 and 30 June 2020. The results indicated that 4.5% of people with Covid -19 reported symptoms within 8 weeks, and 2.3 percent of people only after 12 weeks — the estimate is relatively low. However, the study has been criticized by longtime Covid patients and researchers. There are several reasons for this estimate to be low. First of all, probably because Covid missed a lot of long-term illnesses in the study, they were tired of registering all the symptoms regularly on application. In addition, if the patient had less than five symptoms on the last day he used the app, he said they are recovering.