Two coronavirus side effects that might never go away

• Surviving a novel coronavirus infection doesn’t mean everything will go back to normal for many COVID-19 patients who will continue to suffer from ongoing “Long COVID” symptoms.
• A series of recent studies identified COVID-19 side effects that might never go away, as well as one annoying coronavirus symptom that can linger for weeks after an infection is cleared.
• Doctors have found cases where coronavirus survivors developed abnormalities in the frontal lobe of the brain, as well as patients who lost hearing in one ear. Other people might experience ongoing dermatological issues that can take several weeks to clear.

Coronavirus figures have been plastered all over the news for months, and they’re only going higher as the virus continues to infect record numbers of people. Nearly 45.4 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 worldwide as of Friday morning, and almost 1.2 million people lost their lives due to COVID-19 complications. But there are at least two incredibly misleading details in those figures. First of all, the number of COVID-19 infections is significantly higher. Millions of people who catch the virus are never tested. Secondly, the stats divide patients into two categories: fatalities and survivors. The reality is that there’s also a gray area that the numbers do not address.

Some people who clear the virus end up with chronic symptoms that can take months to go away. This "Long COVID" condition has been widely detailed in reports. There may be millions of people dealing with long-term coronavirus side effects, and it turns out that some of these problems might never go away.

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