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Covid-19 patients may suffer long-term lung damage even after recovery
- rapjr9 6y agoIs anyone tracking this form of damage? This articles says "hundreds of thousands": Here’s What Recovery From Covid-19 Looks Like for Many Survivors https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/health/coronavirus-recovery-survivors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/health/coronavirus-recove... Number of new cases and deaths does not tell the whole story. If lots of people take months to recover or never recover completely, that could have big long term economic impacts. As far as I can tell nobody currently knows how prevalent this is. Here is one data point for lung damage: Up to 30% of COVID-19 survivors may suffer ‘irreversible’ lung damage, warns leaked NHS guidance https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/up-to-30-of-covid-19-survivors-may-suffer-irreversible-lung-damage-warns-leaked-nhs-guidance-753751/ https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/up-to-30-of-covid-19-surv... Nothing about damage to other organs, chronic fatigue, muscle recovery time, etc. Even if we find drugs that prevent anyone from dying, large numbers of people may still be disabled temporarily or permanently. It seems important to track and understand this.