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COVID-19: Many Non-Hospitalized Virus Survivors Face Lingering Health Risks, New Study Shows dailyvoice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyvoice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Death risk increases sharply after Covid-19âeven for patients who weren t hospitalized ⋮ Even non-hospitalized Covid-19 patients face a significantly higher risk of death and chronic medical conditions in the six months after their infection, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Washington University in St. Louis used medical records from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to compare the health outcomes of: 13,997 hospitalized influenza patients; 13,654 hospitalized Covid-19 patients up to six months after they d recovered from an acute case of Covid-19; and Nearly 5 million people who didn t develop Covid-19 and weren t hospitalized. The researchers assessed the symptoms that non-hospitalized Covid-19 survivors experienced between one and six months after their coronavirus infections. According to the ....
The researchers also could not say if people had underlying health conditions and whether their new symptoms were direct effects of their coronavirus infection, corollary effects of medications they were taking to treat some of the symptoms, stress from other pandemic-related problems or other influences. Experts said the study’s findings reflect a cascade of issues driven not just by the virus itself but by the medical system’s struggle to grapple with Covid-19 and its long-term effects. “We have hundreds of thousands of people with an unrecognized syndrome and we are trying to learn about the immune response and how the virus changes that response and how the immune response can include all the organ systems in the body,” said Dr. Eleftherios Mylonakis, chief of infectious diseases at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and Lifespan hospitals, who was not involved in the study. “The health system is not made to deal with something like this.” ....
7-MIN READ He Was Hospitalised for COVID-19. Then Hospitalised Again. And Again. Chris Long, who has landed in the hospital seven times after contracting Covid-19, in Clarkston, Mich., Nov. 24, 2020. (Emily Rose Bennett/The New York Times) Studies reveal that a significant subset of patients are having to return to hospitals, sometimes repeatedly, with complications triggered by the disease or by the body’s efforts to defeat the virus. FOLLOW US ON: The routine things in Chris Long’s life used to include biking 30 miles three times a week and taking courses toward a Ph.D. in eight-week sessions. But since getting sick with the coronavirus in March, Long, 54, has fallen into a distressing new cycle one that so far has landed him in the hospital seven times. ....