Long-haul COVID is described as having symptoms more than months after an initial infection.
The U.S. is now averaging nearly 600,000 new cases of COVID infections per day, meaning millions of people are getting infected with the virus.So far, the omicron variant appears to be milder than previous variants, and there are fewer hospitalizations and deaths from it.
"Based on the data, it looks like the peak of this current Omicron wave will probably occur sometime in mid-January," Dr. Lee said. "Long-COVID is something that's many times overlooked and not discussed," Dr. Lee said."People are focusing on things like deaths or potentially hospitalizations, and so many people tend to forget there is a significant percentage of people who are suffering from long COVID."
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