Experts explain what damage COVID-19 might cause, even after someone recovers from the disease.
suggest it can diminish people’s quality of life and bring on exercise limitations and neuropsychological disorders, even after they’ve recovered.
“There is clearly an incidence of scarring from SARS,” Horovitz said, adding that scarring is linked to a loss of lung capacity.“We may see more lung function impairments, although based on prior research we know that those usually improve over the subsequent months and years,” said, a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician and an assistant professor the Yale School of Medicine.
Ferrante is concerned these problems may be magnified after COVID-19. The treatment recovery programs in hospitals usually used to help patients get mobile again are not being delivered. And on top of that, it takes coronavirus patients a long time to recover — usually about two weeks. She is concerned many COVID-19 patients, particularly those who are older and frail, will have trouble with physical function.Gates said it will take months to years to fully understand the impact long-term health effects of COVID-19
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