A recent study, involving around 100,000 people, revealed that a significant percentage of former coronavirus patients have not fully recovered from all symptoms of Covid 19, despite months of infection.
And the Scottish study indicated that one in twenty people have not yet recovered from the symptoms of the Corona virus, despite a period ranging from 6 to 18 months after being infected, noting that 42 percent of those infected are partially infected. resumed.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, found that people who were infected with the virus, but without symptoms, are unlikely to suffer from these long-term effects and indicated that vaccination provides partial protection from continuing symptoms. according toWashington Post“.
Public health professor at the University of Glasgow, who is overseeing the study, Jill Bell, confirms that the new research reveals the widespread effects of the Corona virus on the life of the infected, explaining that it goes beyond health aspects for the quality of life. employment, education and the ability to take care of oneself.
According to the Washington Post, the wide range of symptoms reported and the inability to provide adequate diagnosis and treatment to patients has left researchers perplexed, according to which between 7 million and 23 million Americans suffer from the long-term effects of virus infection, including one million people who can no longer work, and these numbers are expected to increase as Covid turns into an endemic disease, according to US government estimates.
And researcher Jill Bell adds that the coronary symptom study in Scotland was conducted by analyzing samples from people who were able to identify symptoms associated with the virus during their infection, and indicates that the results showed that people with corona: “They were more likely to be infected with 24 of the 26 symptoms studied than the general population that was never infected.
The study supervisor says, for example, infected people were three and a half times more likely to develop shortness of breath.
Symptoms of continuous injury over time differ from case to case, according to the Scottish study, which indicates that the most common symptoms were shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain and brain disorders.
Commenting on the study findings, David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, says, “This is another well-executed study that shows we need to be very concerned about the current number of persistent injuries,” observing that in front of these data: we are in trouble “.
And Putrino adds: “The severity of symptoms increases among people who have had a severe Covid-19 infection and have been transferred to hospital”, but notes, instead, that “most of the long-term cases have been recorded in people who had mild infections “.
The study found that the risk of Covid-19 virus infection was higher among women, the elderly and among vulnerable social groups. People with physical or mental health problems, such as respiratory illness and depression, were also more likely to have long-term symptoms.
Reported to the University of Glasgow research group led by Bell, he prepared the study with the Public Health and National Health Service and the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh and was funded by the government.
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