{"id":9800,"date":"2026-06-01T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:02:10","slug":"long-covid-may-affect-1-in-6-infected-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-may-affect-1-in-6-infected-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID may be affecting far more Americans than current estimates suggest, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2849452\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> published last week in <em>JAMA Network Open<\/em> estimating that roughly one in six people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop the condition, and nearly 90% go on to experience chronic health problems.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, a team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed health record data from 457,950 adults treated for COVID-19 (also known as postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or PASC) across 58 hospitals and clinics in New England, Southeast Texas, Southern California, and Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified long COVID cases by detecting symptoms and conditions that emerged after infection and could not be explained by preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID may be affecting far more Americans than current estimates suggest, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2849452\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> published last week in <em>JAMA Network Open<\/em> estimating that roughly one in six people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop the condition, and nearly 90% go on to experience chronic health problems.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, a team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed health record data from 457,950 adults treated for COVID-19 (also known as postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or PASC) across 58 hospitals and clinics in New England, Southeast Texas, Southern California, and Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified long COVID cases by detecting symptoms and conditions that emerged after infection and could not be explained by preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-may-affect-1-in-6-infected-patients\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients<\/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":[162,18,11,761,1388,958,8,14,51],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts-general-hospital","tag-pennsylvania","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","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=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}