{
  "id": 16928748,
  "title": "Analysis of 244 million Americans refines the understanding of long COVID",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/analysis-of-244-million-americans-refines-the-understanding-of-long",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T16:20:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-analysis-million-americans-refines-covid.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Long COVID is a phenomenon in which serious health effects linger well after a patient tests negative for coronavirus infection. Patients describe persistent \"brain fog,\" fatigue, dizziness, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath and chest pain, among symptoms that affect nearly every organ system in the body and last a year or more after the infection has passed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}