According to a UK study, not even one in four people who are hospitalized with COVID have recovered completely.
The study found that women were less likely to fully recover than men.
It found that obese people were half as likely to fully recover as those who did not need mechanical ventilation.
The study looked at the health of people who were discharged from 39 British hospitals with COVID between March 2020 and April 2021.
After five months, only 26 percent of patients reported a full recovery, and that number rose to 28.9 percent after a year, according to the study.
Rachel Evans of the National Institute for Health and Care Research said that the recovery from five months to one year after hospitalization is striking.
The most common long-COVID symptoms were fatigue, muscle pain, poor sleep, and breathlessness.
Christopher Brightling said that long COVID could become a highly prevalent new long-term condition without effective treatments.
The study will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and will continue to monitor the patients health.
Agence France-Presse
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