Christiane Riedi Daniel 1 Marina Pegoraro Baroni 2 João Afonso Ruaro 3 Andersom Ricardo Fréz 4 1-3 Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Guarapuava). Paraná, Brazil. criedi@unicentro.br, marinapegoraro@hotmail.com, joaoruaro@gmail.com 4 Corresponding author. Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Guarapuava). Paraná, Brazil. andersom_frez@yahoo.com.br How to cite this article: Daniel CR, Baroni MP, Ruaro JA, Fréz AR. Are we looking at post-COVID patients as we should? J Physiother Res. 2020;10(4):588-590. doi: 10.17267/2238-2704rpf.v10i4.3238 J. Physiother. Res., Salvador, 2020 November;10(4):588-590 Doi: 10.17267/2238-2704rpf.v10i4.3238 | ISSN: 2238-2704 Designated editors: Cristiane Dias, Katia Sá Are we looking at post-COVID patients as we should? Estamos olhando para os indivíduos pós-COVID como deveríamos? Editorial Since the coronavirus pandemic began, much has been said and researched about the clinical manifestations of COVID-19, whose presentations range from asymptomatic, mild, moderate, and severe symptomatic. The main manifestations are fever, cough, and fatigue, which may develop into pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome 1-3 . The severity pattern studied so far subdivides these individuals in the following therapy: home isolation for asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients, admission to hospital wards for moderate symptomatic patients, and ventilatory support and intensive care for severe symptomatic patients 4 . The most studied clinical manifestations are mainly focused on the most severe form of the disease, which involves admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), the need for ventilatory support, high doses of sedatives, prolonged hospitalization, and high mortality 5 , ranging from 50 to 97% in patients who required mechanical ventilation 6 . Still, 70% of individuals admitted to the ICU can develop several other complications associated with hospitalization, which impact on the respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, and musculoskeletal systems 7 . In addition to the severity of these patients, it has been observed that often individuals affected by COVID-19 have persistent symptoms even after being considered recovered. In Italy, a post-COVID follow-up of non-hospitalized individuals showed that 87.4% of the individuals evaluated 60 days after being considered cured still had persistent symptoms. Of these, 53.1% indicated fatigue as the most frequent symptom, followed by dyspnea (43.4%) and joint pain (27.3%), which led to a worsening in the quality of life in 44.1% of people 8 .