According to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 are about four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue compared to those who have never been infected. Medical records data for 4,859 patients collected by the University of Washington and analyzed by researchers covered three hospitals and over 300 primary care and specialty healthcare clinics. Patients who were “over the age 18, having either a positive test result for COVID or a clinical diagnosis of COVID from February 2020 to February 2021, were then followed for at least 11 months and their health data was compared to that of around 9,000 non-COVID patients…” Notably, women were 39 percent more likely to have a fatigue diagnosis than men, after adjusting for age group and comorbidities, according to the research.