5.7 percent of all Covid-19 sufferers have developed long-lasting symptoms that could be assigned to their previous virus infection.
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Berlin Who are the patients who are struggling with symptoms for longer or even chronically after a Covid-19 infection – and above all: what do they have in common?
The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (Zi) is trying to answer this with the help of billing data and thus draw a picture of the people most at risk. Because we still know far too little about the disease of those who are supposed to have recovered.
Mandy Schulz is responsible for data science and supply analyzes at Zi and recently presented the first results of her evaluation of Long Covid internally. According to this, 5.7 percent of all Covid-19 sufferers developed long-lasting symptoms that could be assigned to their previous virus infection.
One speaks of long-Covid if it lasts longer than four months after infection and becomes chronic; of post-Covid if symptoms persist for more than twelve weeks after recovery.
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