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Medical imaging shows the true scope of long-term effects caused by COVID-19 By Austin Williams US life expectancy drops a full year in COVID-19 pandemic Estimates released Feb. 18, 2021 by the CDC show minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black people losing nearly three years and Hispanics losing nearly two years. LOS ANGELES - Radiological images from researchers at Northwestern University detailed the various types of long-term effects of COVID-19 including rheumatoid arthritis flares, autoimmune myositis or "COVID toes," and more. In a study published on Feb. 17 in the journal Sk...

A study out of Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 was first identified, found that nearly 2,000 patients hospitalized during the onset of the pandemic were still reporting symptoms six months later.

COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left. The 54-year-old New York City school secretary didn’t have any underlying health problems when she caught the coronavirus in March, and she recovered at her Queens home. But some symptoms lingered: fatigue she never experienced during years of rising at 5 a.m. for work; pain, especially in her hands and wrists; an altered sense of taste and smell that made food unappealing; and a welling depression. After eights months of suffering, she made her way to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center — to a clinic specifically for post-COVI...

Dozens of clinics cropping up across the country aim to bring relief to COVID patients with lingering symptoms.

UpdatedThu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:30 pm ET Replies(35) Catherine Busa rides an exercise bike as part of her recovery from COVID-19 at her home in Queens, New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ACROSS AMERICA — Catherine Busa was one of the first Americans to contract the coronavirus at the start of the pandemic last March. Despite recovering at her home in Queens, the New York City school secretary has said the long-term effects of the virus have never left. "I felt myself in kind of a hole, and I couldn't look on the bright side," said Busa, who told The Associated Press her lingering symptoms includ...