How Your Body Clock Affects Recovery After COVID-19

This research study is exploring how your body's natural rhythm — whether you're a morning person or evening person — might affect how you recover from long COVID. Researchers will ask you about your sleep patterns, measure your breathing strength, track your physical activity, and collect a small blood sample to look at genes related to your body clock. The goal is to understand whether people with different sleep-wake patterns experience long COVID differently.

Many people continue to feel exhausted, weak, and short of breath long after their COVID-19 infection. Scientists think that disruptions to your body's natural 24-hour rhythm might be partly responsible for these lingering symptoms. This study will help doctors understand whether personalizing recovery plans based on whether you're naturally a morning or evening person could help people feel better.