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While a cough can be a sign of many illnesses (your run-of-the-mill cold, for one), it’s also a common symptom that people experience after coming down with COVID-19, according to Luci Leykum ...
The researchers found that both people who had COVID-19 or another respiratory infection since May 2020 were more likely to have lingering symptoms than people who didn’t have either infection.
A postinfectious cough is a lingering cough that follows a respiratory tract infection, such as a common cold or flu and lasting up to eight weeks. Postinfectious cough is a clinically recognized condition represented within the medical literature.
Some less common symptoms of COVID-19 can be relatively non-specific; however the most common symptoms are fever, dry cough, and loss of taste and smell. [ 1 ] [ 22 ] Among those who develop symptoms, approximately one in five may become more seriously ill and have difficulty in breathing.
Significantly more children reported severe anxiety and severe sleep-related impairment during the COVID-19 lockdown than before COVID-19. The results of this study confirm the suspicions of child and youth care professionals that the COVID-19 lockdown has negative effects on the mental and social health of children and adolescents.
The virus hospitalizes tens of thousands of infants, young children, and elderly adults each year in the U.S. And it kills between 6,000 and 10,000 elderly adults in the U.S. annually, according ...
The prevalence of chronic cough in many communities in Europe and the U.S. is 9–33% of the population. Chronic cough is three times more common in those who smoke compared to people who never smoke. [1] The most important risk factors for chronic cough are tobacco smoking and working in a dusty job. [30]
The average duration of cough is eighteen days [30] and in some cases people develop a post-viral cough which can linger after the infection is gone. [31] In children, the cough lasts for more than ten days in 35–40% of cases and continues for more than 25 days in 10%. [32]