can affect the long-term health of a person’s heart, brain, lungs, kidneys, and skin. It can also cause a host of lasting symptoms, referred to collectively as “long COVID.”A new study has found that 45% of patients hospitalized and treated for COVID-19 were still experiencing related health issues when they were discharged.The study’s lead author, Dr.
Alecia K. Daunter, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, says, “Physicians and others in the healthcare system were working appropriately to discharge patients.” However, she notes:“[Patients] survived, but these people left the hospital in worse physical condition than they started.