Symptom rates were higher among females, Black people, and those 40 years and older or with pre-existing conditions.
Therefore, the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services sought to shed more light on the long Covid situation in their region. So for the MMWR study, they randomly selected about three percent of the 29,594 Long Beach residents who had positive PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 from April 1 to December 10, 2020. This amounted to 791 who were then contacted for follow-up interviews with 366 ending up being interviewed.
Two months after their initial positive SARS-CoV-2 test result, 35.0% reported still having persistent symptoms. They had on average 1.30 symptoms with the most common being fatigue , loss of taste , smelling issues , shortness of breath , and muscle or joint aches . In this case, loss of taste didn’t mean that they were wearing socks with sandals and smelling issues didn’t refer to body odor. They meant loss of the ability to taste things and loss of the sense of smell respectively.
Of course, this study was far from perfect. After all, surveys and polls have plenty o’ limitations. First of all, the LBDHHS surveyed only a sample of people and not everyone who had tested positive for the virus. Secondly, people don’t always answer questions accurately. To see this, all you have to do is ask someone “how many sexual partners have you had,” without clarifying that firm handshakes do not count, that there are no group discounts, and that you will be requiring proof.
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