EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics Most Long COVID Cases Started With Mild Symptoms, Study Says By Staff Monday, January 9, 2023 7:59 AM Just because you start out with a mild case of COVID-19 doesn’t mean you won’t develop long COVID, researchers say."We found that a staggering 90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19," researchers Sarah Wulf Hanson, PhD, MPH, and Theo Vos, MD, PhD, both of the University of Washington, said in an article about their research in The Conversation."After developing long COVID, however, the typical person experienced symptoms including fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive problems such as brain fog—or a combination of these—that affected daily functioning. These symptoms had an impact on health as severe as the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury."Their study was published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Head over to Medscape to read the full story.