Epidemic of fatigue hits SA as 82% of Covid-19 survivors say they're in the long haul

Most Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital still have symptoms a month later, according to SA's first study of 'long Covid'.

National Institute for Communicable Diseases

More than half told researchers who interviewed them on the telephone that they were eating more healthily, and one in five said they were drinking less alcohol.Image:Obesity and the presence of four or more symptoms during the virus' acute phase were the factors most closely associated with patients' non-recovery.

The team plans to follow the progress of the patients for a year and said its work would contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, the establishment of multidisciplinary health services, training of healthcare workers and the provision of information and support to patients. They had all been hospitalised for at least a day, tested positive and been discharged between December 2020 and April 2021. Two-thirds had been in private hospitals, and higher proportions came from the 40-64 age group and those who had been treated in ICU and given oxygen.

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