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Moderate to severe sleep disturbances and severe fatigue affect up to 40 percent of patients with long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Such disturbances are especially common among Black people, new research shows.

The "high" prevalence of moderate to severe sleep disturbances is "alarming," study investigator Cinthya Pena Orbea, MD, sleep specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, told Medscape Medical News.

The findings were presented at SLEEP 2022: 36th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Head over to Medscape to read the full story.