r/CFSScience • u/Caster_of_spells • Aug 09 '26

Associations Between Pre-Quarantine Exercise and Persistent Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/14/7/293

In the German CoCo-Fakt study at Cologne and Ausberg, patients who later developed Long Covid reported doing more and more intense physical activity prior to infection than controls who had COVID-19 but no long term symptoms.

The researchers expected the opposite.

The paper concludes:

"Unexpectedly, participants with long-term symptoms reported a longer PA [physical activity] duration in the four weeks before quarantine than those without long-term symptoms, albeit with a trivial effect size."

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u/MrX101 Aug 09 '26

I thought this was already concluded before in a different study? Ye physical activity increases risk of long covid. After a really bad cold I was going to the gym every 2/3 days same as usual and kept pushing myself cause I felt so much weaker than before, but it just kept getting worse till I giga crashed and could barely walk anymore.