Nearly half of patients with symptomatic COVID-19 fail to recover after 6 to 18 months

Approximately 48% patients who develop symptomatic COVID-19 either fail to recover or achieve only partial recovery within 6 to 18 months after infection, according to data published in Nature Communications.
“With increasing numbers of people having been infected since the start of the pandemic, attention is shifting from managing the acute infection to understanding long COVID in order to inform the health and social care response,” Claire E. Hastie, PhD, of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, at the University of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, and colleagues wrote. “The

Approximately 48% patients who develop symptomatic COVID-19 either fail to recover or achieve only partial recovery within 6 to 18 months after infection, according to data published in Nature Communications.
“With increasing numbers of people having been infected since the start of the pandemic, attention is shifting from managing the acute infection to understanding long COVID in order to inform the health and social care response,” Claire E. Hastie, PhD, of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, at the University of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, and colleagues wrote. “The