Louise King, MD, assistant professor in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, is co-director of the UNC COVID Recovery Clinic. She is featured in a Wall Street Journal recognizing millions of people remain at risk of developing an array of less serious but potentially debilitating long-term symptoms of the disease that scientists call long Covid.
Long Covid—a term referring to symptoms that linger for weeks or months beyond infection—affects between 10% and 30% of people who catch the virus, including those with mild or asymptomatic infections, according to experts. In some cases, symptoms persist for more than a year.
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