Many people are tired of grappling with long COVID – here are some evidence-based ways to counter it

Kyle B. Enfield, University of Virginia

A patient of mine, once a marathon runner, now gets tired just walking around the block. She developed COVID-19 during the 2020 Christmas holiday and saw me during the summer of 2021. Previously, her primary care doctor had recommended a graded exercise program. But exercise exhausted her. After months of waiting, she finally had an appointment at our post-COVID-19 clinic at the University of Virginia.

She is hardly alone in her extended search for answers. Studies suggest that from 10% to 45% of COVID-19 survivors have at least one of the following symptoms three months after recovery: fatigue, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty sleeping, difficulty with daily activities or mental fogginess, otherwise known as “brain fog.”

There are many names for this condition: long COVID, long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19 syndrome and chronic COVID. Patients report that their symptoms, or the severity of them, fluctuate over time, which makes diagnosis and treatment difficult.

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CBS News

A vaccine is showing promise in staving off the return of one of the deadliest forms of cancer. The vaccine provoked an immune response in half of the pancreatic cancer patients treated during a recent clinical trial, and patients showed no recurrence of their cancer during the course of the years long study. Dr. Vinod Balachandran, an attending surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and leader of the team behind this pancreatic cancer vaccine trial, joined CBS News to talk about the trial.

Watch the video HERE.