THE LONG GAME

Some effects of COVID-19, from fatigue to brain fog, can linger long after the virus is gone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 35 percent of adult patients, most of whom had not been in the hospital, had not returned to their “usual state of health” two to three weeks after testing positive. And an Italian study published July 9 in JAMA found that 87 percent of patients who were hospitalized still had at least one lingering symptom (fatigue being the most common) 60 days after their first.