Almost 90 % of patients who recover from coronavirus, do not recover completely. This suggests the emergence of new complications syndrome COVID-19. Such conclusions were made by Italian scientists, reports the Daily Mail.
According to them, 60 days after recovery, patients are still experiencing a number of disturbing symptoms.
The researchers observed a group of 143 hospitalized, who have managed to conquer the disease. Only 12.6% had no symptoms two months after the beginning of illness. The rest was recorded by fatigue, shortness of breath and pain in the joints, characteristic of COVID-19 signs. Half of the patients reported that their quality of life has deteriorated markedly compared to the period before infection.
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Overall, 87.4%, other reported that still have at least one symptom.
Experts called the results “extremely disturbing.”
In particular, avstriiskii epidemiologist Gideon of Meyerowitz Katz warned that such complications may become the norm for patients who had pneumonia on a background COVID-19.
Dr. Bharat of Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter, said that the results of the study “inconclusive” due to the small scope of patients. However, he agreed with the authors that “there may be a syndrome COVID-19, and that we should follow its manifestations.”
Earlier study of a small group of Italians who have had the mild form of the disease, showed that some of them have difficulty with smell or taste even a month after recovery. If COVID-19 will be a long-lasting disease, the number of victims could increase dramatically.
“Given the high prevalence Covid-19 in the world, it can lead to a significant number of patients with long term dysfunction and related morbidity,” said Dr. Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo of the University of Padua.
Earlier, the Rambler reported that the who recorded the highest number of cases COVID-19 per day.
