More than one in five people across the United States is likely to suffer from long COVID-19, a new AI-generated review has found. According to the research published in the journal Med, around 23 per cent of adults experience the symptoms. The data, collected from June 1-June 13 by the US Census Bureau and analyzed by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, added new questions from their regular ones, to assess the prevalence of post-COVID-19 conditions – also known as long COVID-19.
According to experts, long COVID-19 keeps on lingering months after the actual infection gets over. You may feel exhausted and tired all the time and cannot think straight. Food which you liked once begins to taste metallic and may face severe insomnia.
AI tool vets through symptoms to find the diagnosis “Questions about the true burden of long COVID -- questions that have thus far remained elusive -- now seem more within reach,” said Hossein Estiri, senior researcher, head of AI research at Mass General Brigham in Boston. For the study, researchers developed an AI tool that can sift through mounds of electronic health records looking for the frequently subtle symptoms related to long COVID-19. These symptoms occur in a wide range of body systems, which include extreme tiredness, chronic cough, heart issues and “brain fog.
” The symptoms of long COVID-19 typically develop weeks or months after a person shakes off their initial coronavirus.
