Get to know the three categories of long COVID with Dr. Nancy Klimas.
On the Long COVID The Answers Podcast, Dr. Klimas categorizes long COVID patients starting with those who have permanent structural changes from acute infections and persistent inflammation.
The second group includes patients with affected peripheral nerves. The last group shows symptoms of ME/CFS with PEM and also has more systemic symptoms day by day.
Learn more on the full podcast episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nihzqamt5xY
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the first there’s a group of people that during acute covid had damage to organ systems that from the acute infection permanent structural changes and have persistent inflammation and persistent thrombosis types of changes then a second group that had the effect on their peripheral nerves particularly smell and taste those people often have just this one complication but then there’s the group that we see as long Co it looks more like what I tend to see is mecfs myia conil myelitis with the post- exertional Mala and the more systemic symptoms that are seen day by day in our long Co patients this is NSU prepare to dominate
