Early studies by scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Durham University show that COVID-19 infection has a distinct smell, resulting from changes in the volatile organic compounds (VOC) which make up the body odour – generating an odour fingerprint that the
Researchers from the Leicester University and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have found that almost a third of recovered Coronavirus patients are readmitted to hospitals within five months. But the most shocking part of their finding is that up to one in eight patients dies because of COVID-19 related complications.
The team of researchers in the UK identified that that out of 47,780 people discharged from hospital in the first wave of Coronavirus, 29.4 percent returned to the hospital within 140 days and 12.3 percent died.
Long-Term Effects and Death
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As reported by Telegraph, the study author Kamlesh Khunti, professor of primary care diabetes and vascular medicine at Leicester University, said that this was the largest study involving COVID-19 affected people discharged from the hospital.