Half of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in China still have symptoms after two years


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A follow-up study found that two years after being hospitalised with COVID-19 in China, over half still have at least one symptom. The longest follow-up study to date, published in The Lancet , followed around 1200 patients in Wuhan, China, who were hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first phase of the pandemic in 2020. Generally, both physical and mental health improved over time, regardless of initial disease severity. Nearly 90% of participants had returned to their original work after two years. However , six months after initially falling ill, nearly 70% of participants reported at least one long COVID symptom....