How many are long-term sick in covid-19, no one knows.
According to Novus' latest survey in August, there may be around 150,000 people who themselves believe that they have been ill for a long time.
General practitioner Sofia Hellman at the health center in Vaxholm has received about ten patients during the summer.
She says that primary care is now pulling a huge load.
- Yes, I think we will see more, and I think it is primary care that will take care of them, she says.
Been seriously ill
The same picture is shared by Magnus Isacsson, general practitioner in Tensta and chairman of the Swedish Society for General Practice.
- We now see that there will be a plethora of those patients.
But we do not really know how to relate to them, he says.
Most have been seriously ill but have not been hospitalized.
Many symptoms are common.
They still have difficulty breathing, the heart is racing, there is fever and lack of energy and an increased risk of blood clots.
Many people report neurological symptoms such as loss of taste and smell, numbness, tingling, dizziness, headaches and difficulty concentrating.
"Phenomena we do not know"
But the knowledge gaps are big.
This autumn, the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Swedish Agency for Medical and Social Evaluation will investigate which symptoms are typical of long-term illness and which treatment is best.
- The difficulty here is that it is a completely new phenomenon that we do not know about, and we can not give them a forecast.
Many times I may not have been able to do much about the symptoms, but you can believe them, and I have been able to be there, says Sofia Hellman.