About 30 percent of those hospitalized with coronavirus in England were readmitted for treatment within five months of their first release, a new study found, claiming to shed more light on the “Long Covid” phenomenon.
The pre-printed study, which has not yet undergone peer review, found that those discharged from hospitals after receiving treatment for Covid-19 “Facing high rates of multiple organ dysfunction” and frequently require rehospitalization, citing nearly 50,000 English patients reviewed in the survey.
“Of 47,780 individuals hospitalized with Covid-19 during the study period, 29.4 percent were readmitted and 12.3 percent died after discharge,” said the newspaper, with its authors noting that it is the largest study of its kind to date.
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Although a lot about what was dubbed “Long Covid” or “Post-Covid Syndrome” (PCS) – a condition in which virus symptoms, sometimes atypical, persist for months – remains unknown, a growing body of evidence suggests that a large proportion of patients have symptoms well beyond the initial infection. Figures provided by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), for example, indicate that up to a fifth of England’s coronavirus patients still show symptoms five weeks after contracting the disease, while half of that number experience them for at least 12 weeks. .
Studies with American military veterans showed that about 20 percent of those with Covid-19 had to return to the hospital for treatment within 60 days of discharge, while 9 percent died. Citing this research, the authors of the UK-based study said that Covid-19 was considered “Associated with greater chances of acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, use of insulin, pulmonary embolism, stroke, myocarditis, arrhythmia and elevated troponin.”
Led by lead author and lead statistician Daniel Ayoubkhan from ONS, the new research on hospital readmissions concluded that “The long-term burden of Covid-related morbidity in hospitals and broader health systems is likely to be substantial” given the high prevalence of PCS.
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The NHS National Medical Director warns that the drop in Covid-19 infections will not reduce ‘severe pressure’ on hospitals for several weeks
To date, the UK has reported about 3.4 million coronavirus infections and just over 90,000 deaths since the outbreak began in late 2019, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, placing it among the five most affected countries in terms of total case counts. Although the past few days have seen a gradual drop in new infections, NHS National Medical Director Stephen Powis said on Monday that “Severe pressure” in the health system would probably not decline for some time, pointing to a more infectious variant of the virus that has spread over large areas of the country. His warning came while a national blockade remains in place amid efforts to distribute one of several vaccines now approved for use in the UK.
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