How Long Does It Take To Recover From COVID? - WHYY

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This is one of a series of articles in which reporters from WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk answer questions about vaccines and COVID-19 submitted by you, our audience.

A persistent cough. Waves of fatigue. The inability to smell if the milk has gone bad. These are just a few COVID-19 symptoms that can linger for weeks or months after an initial coronavirus infection. Though they may not always amount to the debilitating cases of long COVID that can leave people bedridden or unable to perform daily functions, it’s very common for recovery from COVID infections to take weeks.

With record numbers of Americans contracting the virus during the recent omicron surge have come record numbers of Americans recovering from COVID-19. And that might not always happen as quickly as we’ve been led to expect.

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“There could be more to help people understand that it’s not always a quick bounce back right away after the initial infection,” said Dr. Ben Abramoff, director of the Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. “This is still a very significant viral infection, and sometimes it’s just a more gradual recovery process than people’s previous viral illnesses.”

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