About half of adults treated at hospitals for COVID-19 have experienced lingering symptoms, financial difficulties, or physical limitations months after being discharged, according to a National Institutes of Health-supported study published in JAMA Network Open.
“My clinic patients often want to know how soon they’ll get back to their usual health,” said Andrew J. Admon, the study’s first author, an assistant professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan and pulmonologist at LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center in Ann Arbor. “Based on these data, it seems that many people hospitalized for COVID-19 should expect symptoms to last for up to six months or even longer.”
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