Along with fever and cough, musculoskeletal pain is one of the most common symptoms of patients with acute COVID-19, and among the symptoms that can persist in post-acute long COVID (J Clin Med 2020;9L941).
However, unlike fever and cough and other symptoms associated with a condition initially manifesting as a respiratory infection, the development and common persistence of musculoskeletal pain is not as likely to be appreciated in managing post-acute symptoms.
The time course of musculoskeletal