Prognosis
Long Covid Patients Face Fatigue, Poor Sleep Even After One Year
- Over 70% didn’t fully recover 12 months after hospitalization
- Patients who had severe Covid fared worse in U.K. study
A health professional helps a Covid-19 patient exercise at the Intensive Care Unit of the Virgen de Fatima contingency hospital, in Peru.
Photographer: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images
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Most people hospitalized with Covid-19 who emerged with lingering symptoms from the infection showed little improvement a year later, according to a study seeking to assess the effect of long Covid.
About seven in 10 Covid long haulers continued to face symptoms like fatigue, muscle pain, lack of sleep and breathing difficulties 12 months after hospital discharge, a study led by the U.K.’s National Institute of Health Research found. There was no or very little improvement compared with seven months earlier.