Fernández-de-las-Peñas C, Rodríguez-Jiménez J, Cancela-Cilleruelo I, et al. Post–COVID-19 Symptoms 2 Years After SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Hospitalized vs Nonhospitalized Patients. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(11):e2242106.

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.42106

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The proportion of patients with at least 1 post–COVID-19 symptom 2 years after acute infection was 59.7% for hospitalized patients and 67.5% for those not requiring hospitalization. No significant differences in post–COVID-19 symptoms were seen between hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients.

Interpretation Notes

• The lack of correlation between acute-stage severity and Long Covid risk is not an anomaly: that point is reinforced by study after study.
• “2 years after acute infection” does not imply resolved after 2 years — it just means that’s when the follow-up data collection was done.