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Almost everyone still has health problems after recovering from Covid-19

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Yes, I believe that the panic and "quarantine" in connection with the coronavirus in the world is exaggerated. It is exaggerated because this is not yet the worst and most dangerous that can await us in the future. If now we fight this by closing countries and economies, then in the future we will have to sit in bunkers.

Coronavirus is a serious thing, no doubt about it, but you need to learn to protect yourself from it, treat it and recover from it, if possible, without greatly limiting your life.

Here is what British doctors write about people who have already had coronavirus.

According to a study commissioned by Longfonds in the Netherlands in June, many recovered coronavirus patients who did not require hospitalization are still facing serious health problems months later.

While 94% of them say they do not feel as healthy as they did before the viral infection, about 60% of this group said they still have breathing problems that make it difficult, for example, to walk, and almost half of them cannot play sports, ”Longfonds director Michael Rutgers said in a statement. "We find it really shocking."

Longfonds, the CIRO treatment center and the University of Maastricht interviewed 1,600 people who said they had symptoms after recovering from the coronavirus.

Rutgers said this was the first time that these patients were truly in the spotlight, as most of them had never been treated in a medical center. Longfonds and CIRO said 91% of respondents have not been hospitalized and 43% have never officially tested for Covid-19.

These recovered patients told the researchers that they still suffer from symptoms such as chest tightness, fatigue, headaches, or shortness of breath, nearly three months after recovery.

85% of participants said they were in good health before contracting the coronavirus. Only 6% (!!!) declared that their health returned to the level it was before the infection. The average age of the respondents is 53 years.

And after another 3 months, another study was conducted by the same group, which showed that more than half of patients still have six or more negative symptoms, even six months after being infected with the coronavirus.

About 91% indicated that they still suffer from at least 1 symptom.

Approximately 86% reported that they continued to suffer from fatigue 165 days after the first symptoms. About 59% said they had shortness of breath, and 36% said they suffered from chest pressure. The median age of patients in the study was 48, with 86% saying they were healthy before infection.

“An alarming picture. Once again, it is clear how serious the health effects of this virus are, ”said Michael Rutgers.

Other long-term symptoms reported include muscle pain, which was reported by 40% of the subjects, and this figure increased over the course of the study. Frequent headaches were also reported by 35%. The study focused on 1,005 coronavirus patients and was a step up from a study first published by Longfonds in June, three months after the onset of the crisis. About 94% of those surveyed have never been admitted to a hospital for Covid-19 treatment, and 61% said they had no health complaints prior to infection.

Longfond presented the case of 26-year-old Rachel Burger, who was infected on March 17. At the time, she was healthy, working full time and exercising for about six hours a week. “And now I'm still so tired that I can hardly get through the day. I have severe chest pain and poor short-term memory, ”she said. “Fortunately, I can now do sports physiotherapy twice a week in a hospital rehabilitation program. But I'm worried: how long will it take? "

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