55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years | MedPage Today
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“Regardless of initial disease severity, #COVID-19 survivors had longitudinal improvements in physical and mental health, with most returning to their original work within 2 years; however, the burden of symptomatic sequelae remained fairly high,” the group wrote. “COVID-19 survivors had a remarkably lower health status than the general population at 2 years.”
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Study limitations included the lack of a control group of hospital survivors with a respiratory infection other than COVID, so there was no way to tell if these abnormalities are specific to COVID. There may have also been participation bias, where participants with fewer symptoms might have been less likely to participate. Finally, the data came from a single center early in the pandemic, which may limit its generalizability.
