Since the initial outbreak of COVID-19, there have been reports of many people living with a new condition named post-COVID syndrome. These people are young and old, and they experience symptoms long after the infection has passed. Called long-haulers, they can have symptoms that last weeks or months after they first became ill. But given that severe COVID-19 is viral sepsis, could this really be post-sepsis syndrome instead?

It isn’t unusual for someone who had a virus to continue feeling ill or experience symptoms for weeks after. This is called post-viral fatigue or post-infection fatigue, but what COVID survivors are experiencing seems to be more than that.

The COVID-related symptoms that linger after the initial infection may not always be obvious to another person, but they exist.

According to Houston Methodist, a medical center in Texas, testing shows changes in the body in many cases. For example, an MRI of the heart may show myocarditis – inflamed heart muscle.

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