LONG COVID—30% of hospital recovered #COVID19 patients end up back in hospital in <5 months; up to 12% die of complications. “we really need to prepare for #LongCovid. It’s a mammoth task to follow up w/ these patients, but monitoring needs to be arranged”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
2) “Researchers at the UK’s Leicester University and the Office for National Statistics found that out of 47,780 people discharged from the hospital, 29.4 percent were readmitted within 140 days, the Telegraph reported.
Of the total, 12.3 percent succumbed to the illness.
Of the total, 12.3 percent succumbed to the illness.
3) “Many people who suffer long-lasting effects of the coronavirus develop heart problems, diabetes and chronic liver and kidney conditions.
4) “People seem to be going home, getting long-term effects, coming back in and dying. We see nearly 30 percent have been readmitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so large,” study author Kamlesh Khunti said.
5) in addition, we need to think about lung damage. Patients in China who had COVID have even sometimes needed lung transplants. Think about that. Thread below...
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1350612168211910663
6) And if someone dares to say “just the flu” one more damn time...
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1341267203166007297
7) Some Covid downplaying / pro-natural-herd people often say “but but but at least we will have long term immunity”.... well, hate to break it to you... but viruses can mutate. Case in point:
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1351282325926146048
8) Your lungs on COVID in a special 3D scan...
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1351524920686215168
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