Many patients who have recovered from corona appear to still have complaints after almost six months. The Long Fund and Maastricht University have followed more than a thousand patients since the start of the corona crisis.
“More than half of them still have six or more complaints,” said Michael Rutgers, director of the Long Fund, in the NOS Radio 1 News. “And nine out of ten are not yet free of complaints. That is quite alarming. It is not the case that everyone who has had corona keeps these complaints. It concerns this specific group.”
Good guidance
Rutgers mentions complaints such as fatigue, muscle pain, shortness of breath and headache. Most of the participants in the study (94 percent) were not in hospital: they had mild complaints. The average age of the respondents is 48 years and 86 percent of them said they were in good health before the corona infection.
“It still needs to be investigated further, we are far from there yet. I would conclude that we should not be too frivolous about the period after the acute corona complaints. It may be that you end up with misery for a long time. I think that those people need to be properly guided. “
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