Do some symptoms of COVID-19 and long COVID typically occur together?

COVID-19 and long COVID are relatively new conditions. This means we don’t yet know much about what symptoms people have, how often they occur, and whether there are groups of symptoms that occur in the same patients.

Project aims

The aim of this study is to investigate whether some symptoms of COVID-19 and long COVID typically occur together.

We will study this by combining information from 10 groups of people who reported their COVID-19 symptoms between April 2020 and October 2021 as part of earlier studies.

We will analyse this information using computer algorithms to find out whether there are groups of symptoms that occur together. We hope that combining the information from 10 studies will give us enough data to identify groups of symptoms that occur less often.

We will compare the results from different computer algorithms to give us more confidence that we are correctly identifying groups of symptoms that occur together.

What we hope to achieve

Depending on our results, we hope to share them with healthcare professionals and health policymakers.

Understanding whether there are groups of symptoms that occur in the same COVID-19 and long-COVID patients will allow healthcare professionals to more effectively diagnose and treat patients. It will also enable further research into how common these illnesses are, what puts people at risk of developing them, and what happens to people who have them.