Even though they have been declared cured, Covid-19 survivors are at risk of experiencing long Covid. This also applies to survivors of Covid-19 variants Omicron where survivors can experience long Covid Omicron. Following gejala long Covid Omicron.
Long Covid is seen as a symptom of Covid-19 that lasts for a long time or is prolonged. As reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, some survivors may experience a long series of new or ongoing COVID-19 symptoms for weeks or months after being first infected.
However, Maria Van Kerkhove, epidemiologist and technical head of the WHO’s Emergency Health Programme, said the long-term effects of infection usually appear about 90 days after the initial symptoms of infection have disappeared.
What are the symptoms of long Covid Omicron?
Van Kerkhove explained considering the severity of the long-term effects, the virus can affect all organs of the body, but can differ from one survivor to another.
According to reports Live Mint, not all organs are affected at the same time. The severity starts from people having difficulty controlling their breath, also not being able to exercise like they used to.
Several studies show an alleged risk of heart disease as a symptom of long Covid.
Meanwhile, some experts consider it too early to track the long Covid Omicron considering that this variant was only detected in November 2021. Even the definition of long Covid is different, for example, British health authorities say a survivor has long Covid if it has lasted 3 months, while the CDC has a period of 4 weeks or more.
Pulmonologist Erlang Samoedro believes that the symptoms of long Covid Omicron cannot be detected because they are still new.
“But if the symptoms are mild, usually there are no long Covid symptoms that arise,” he said via short message to CNNIndonesia.com some time ago.
In an interview, US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said the risk of long-term COVID-19 remains regardless of the variant.
“Long Covid can occur regardless of the variant of the virus. There is no evidence that there is a difference between Delta or Beta or now Omicron,” Fauci said, as quoted by Antara. Healthline.
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