COVID-19 patients 4 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue

Patients who tested positive for COVID-19 were 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than those without the disease, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC looked at electronic health records from the University of Washington for more than 4,500 patients with confirmed COVID-19.

The researchers followed the patients for a median of 11.4 months and compared their health data with the data of more than 9,000 patients with similar characteristics and no COVID-19.

Read more: CDC

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