COMMON LABORATORY TESTS CAN NOT DIAGNOSE LONG COVID, AS PER THE STUDY

A new study related to diagnosis of Covid reveals that most routine laboratory tests fail to reliably diagnose long Covid, also known as Post -Acute Sequelae of SARS -CoV -2 infection (PASC) . The research on the captioned subject found no dependable blomarker, among 25 routine clinical lab values for prior infection, PASC, or specific PASC symptoms clusters, indicating that these routine tests are not clinically useful for diagnosing PASC. The study on the captioned subject further demonstrates that patients may have severe Long Covid with normal lab results, as per version of the professor working in the division of infectious diseases at the university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus, US. According to this suggestion of the research made by the university doctors should focus on patients symptoms and finding ways to alleviate them rather than relying on blood tests to diagnose Long Covid. The team working on the captioned subject further noted that till the time a reliable biomarker is found, history taking and clinical assessment remain the best diagnostic modality for PASC.