Differences Between Women With COVID-19 and Long Covid

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 630 million people and resulted in more than 6.5 million deaths worldwide. Among the possible sequelae of the virus, a disorder called long COVID has shown to affect about 10% of those infected, mostly adult women, without comorbidities. Long COVID corresponds to a multisystemic syndrome following the acute period of the disease, in which the person maintains persistent symptoms such as fatigue, dyspnea, cough, memory loss, muscle and joint pain, among others. Now that time has passed, it is necessary to verify why there are women who present symptoms of long covid and others do not.