{"id":7849,"date":"2025-01-15T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2025-01-19T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:37:29","slug":"1-in-20-covid-survivors-may-have-condition-characterized-by-extreme-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-20-covid-survivors-may-have-condition-characterized-by-extreme-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 20 COVID survivors may have condition characterized by extreme fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New results from the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER)-Adult Initiative suggest that 4.5% of COVID-19 survivors have myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS), compared with less than 1% of their uninfected counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>ME\/CFS, which can be triggered by viral and non-viral infection, causes severe fatigue for at least 6&nbsp;months and may entail impaired memory, brain fog, dizziness, and muscle or joint pain. Physical or mental activity exacerbates symptoms, which aren\u2019t fully relieved by rest.<\/p>\n<p>RECOVER-Adult is a longitudinal observational study conducted at 83 sites in 33 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC, to research post-COVID conditions such as ME\/CFS and long COVID. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER)-Adult Initiative suggest that 4.5% of COVID-19 survivors have myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS), compared with less than 1% of their uninfected counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>ME\/CFS, which can be triggered by viral and non-viral infection, causes severe fatigue for at least 6&nbsp;months and may entail impaired memory, brain fog, dizziness, and muscle or joint pain. Physical or mental activity exacerbates symptoms, which aren\u2019t fully relieved by rest.<\/p>\n<p>RECOVER-Adult is a longitudinal observational study conducted at 83 sites in 33 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC, to research post-COVID conditions such as ME\/CFS and long COVID. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-20-covid-survivors-may-have-condition-characterized-by-extreme-fatigue\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 in 20 COVID survivors may have condition characterized by extreme fatigue<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,11,1247,1016,8,14],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-me-cfs","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}