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Posted On: 12/30/2020 7:27:16 AM
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Interesting(scary) account of persistent/recurrent/long-haul Covid.
I had understood this to be an issue of persistent symptoms and disability, not acute symptom recurrence and hospital readmission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/cov...sions.html
He Was Hospitalized for Covid-19. Then Hospitalized Again. And Again.
Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that send them back to the hospital, taxing an already overburdened health system.
“ In another study of 1,775 coronavirus patients discharged from 132 V.A. hospitals in the pandemic’s early months, nearly a fifth were rehospitalized within 60 days. More than 22 percent of them needed intensive care, and 7 percent required ventilators.”
I had understood this to be an issue of persistent symptoms and disability, not acute symptom recurrence and hospital readmission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/cov...sions.html
He Was Hospitalized for Covid-19. Then Hospitalized Again. And Again.
Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that send them back to the hospital, taxing an already overburdened health system.
“ In another study of 1,775 coronavirus patients discharged from 132 V.A. hospitals in the pandemic’s early months, nearly a fifth were rehospitalized within 60 days. More than 22 percent of them needed intensive care, and 7 percent required ventilators.”
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