A friend pointed me to a study showing a high rate of chronic fatigue in SARS survivors (40%). I did a quick analysis of risk of chronic fatigue from getting COVID-19 (my best guess for young healthy people is ~2 weeks lost in expectation, but could be less than a day or more like 100 days on what seem like reasonable assumptions. ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z2HTn72fM6saFH42VKs6lEdvooLJ6qaXwCrQ5YZ33Fk/edit?usp=sharing
Big source of uncertainty is how long the fatigue persists—it wasn’t entirely clear from the SARS paper whether that was the fraction of people who still had fatigue at 4 years, or people who’d had it at some point. Numbers are very different if it’s a few months of fatigue vs rest of your life. Not sure I’ve split up the persistent CF vs temporary post-viral fatigue properly
A friend pointed me to a study showing a high rate of chronic fatigue in SARS survivors (40%). I did a quick analysis of risk of chronic fatigue from getting COVID-19 (my best guess for young healthy people is ~2 weeks lost in expectation, but could be less than a day or more like 100 days on what seem like reasonable assumptions. ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z2HTn72fM6saFH42VKs6lEdvooLJ6qaXwCrQ5YZ33Fk/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for doing this. Has been on my list to look at for a while and am really glad we have numbers to work with.
Big source of uncertainty is how long the fatigue persists—it wasn’t entirely clear from the SARS paper whether that was the fraction of people who still had fatigue at 4 years, or people who’d had it at some point. Numbers are very different if it’s a few months of fatigue vs rest of your life. Not sure I’ve split up the persistent CF vs temporary post-viral fatigue properly