This is associated with fatigue, muscle aches, and depression.

Post-COVID fatigue is more than feeling tired.

More research is being conducted exploring the potential forCOVID-19 vaccination to reduce the severity of long COVID symptoms.

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Research on how best to treat long COVID is ongoing as the condition is new.

Research also suggests that post-COVID fatigue symptoms can improve over time, with varying rates of symptom duration.

Energy works like a battery: It can run out with use and needs to be recharged.

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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.Long COVID basics.

Sante Monteregie.Fatigue and COVID-19.

Yale Medicine.What happens when you still have long COVID symptoms?

Newcastle University.Unlocking the secrets of long Covid.

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Bond University.Fatigue after COVID is way more than just feeling tired.

5 tips on what to do about it.