According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, one in five adults Covid patients could develop long Covid conditions with a wide-ranging set of symptoms including fatigue, shortness of breath and brain fog. A CDC analysis of death certificates across the country reportedly found 100 deaths from the long Covid.

According to POLITICO, the CDC review “indicates that long Covid and the health complications associated with it could lead to death”.

The overall risk factors for mortality with long COVID are going to be important and evolving.

– Mady Hornig, a physician-scientist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (source: POLITICO)

The CDC told POLITICO that the agency is identifying deaths attributed to long Covid and expected to publish the results soon.

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Sairam Parthasarathy, chief of the pulmonary division at the University of Arizona’s medical school and one of the leads on its long Covid study, told POLTICO “There is a significant underdetection of long Covid. It ties into health literacy … of someone being aware that they have a medical problem. If someone feels that they don’t have a medical problem, sometimes they may not seek care.”

There is reportedly no wording or terminology to assign such long Covid deaths, there is no official record of long Covid deaths.

Jerry Krishnan, a pulmonary physician at the University of Illinois Chicago who is leading the institution’s long Covid clinical study, told POLITICO “It certainly is possible and probable that someone who was sick from Covid develop complications after Covid and die of long Covid. I have not seen the data. But I have heard that people have developed heart or lung or brain complications after having had Covid. And eventually they have died.”

Parthasarathy added “We know that people of color were disproportionately affected by Covid disease as opposed to just mild SARS-CoV-2infection. And we know that people who are hospitalized with Covid are more likely to have long Covid. When they showed those numbers … it was like, ‘of course.’ We were able to connect the dots.”