People who have been hospitalised with flu are at an increased risk of longer-term health problems, similar to those with longCOVID, data suggests.
While the symptoms associated with such “long flu” appear to be more focused on the lungs than ongoingCOVIDsymptoms, in both cases the risk of death and disability was greater in the months after infection than in the first 30 days.
Almost 80 per cent of those people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more, the report said. In addition, more than half of those who ever had long-term symptoms still had them as of June 2023.
"Among Canadians who reported ever experiencing long-term symptoms, those who continue to experience these symptoms (58.2 per cent) outnumber those who have reported them resolved (41.8 per cent)," the report said.
