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Symptoms of long COVID are becoming more common among Americans.

The CDC says 6.8% of Americans recently reported having long COVID symptoms, and 17.6% say they’ve had long COVID at some point, according to the federal health agency's most recent Household Pulse Survey.

The 6.8% is an increase from the October survey results, where 5.3% of respondents reported having long COVID symptoms. Not since November 2022 has the survey showed that high a percentage of people reporting having long COVID symptoms.

Health experts said the rising long COVID numbers are worrisome.

“This should be setting off alarms for many people,” David Putrino, PhD, the Nash family director of the Cohen Center for Recovery From Complex Chronic Illness at Mount Sinai, told The Guardian. “We’re really starting to see issues emerging faster than I expected.” Head over to WebMD to read the full story.