Three quarters of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have lingering symptoms and complications caused by the disease. This is stated in a study by Chinese doctors published in The Lancet.
Doctors checked the data of 1,733 patients discharged from the Jin Ying Tan Hospital in Wuhan from January 7 to May 29, and identified the main consequence of the disease. It is indicated that only those who required hospitalization participated in the study, 75 percent of them needed additional oxygen, but they were not connected to ventilators.
63 percent of patients complain of fatigue or muscle weakness long after the illness. 26 percent report sleep problems, and 23 percent report anxiety or depression.
Steven Deeks, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who leads the study of long-term symptoms of coronavirus, noted that such rates are higher than doctors expected: “It is important that there is no specific development of complications, there are only a few results : mental health problems, lung problems, quality of life. “
