Topline Covid-19 often saddles people with months of lingering health problems, and patients who survive the first month without going to the hospital still face an almost 60% higher risk of death, according to a study Thursday that backs up many experts’ fears about “long Covid.” Healthcare worker holds a Covid-19 testing kit. getty Key Facts The study, published in Nature, looked at over 70,000 Department of Veterans Affairs patients who caught the coronavirus but weren’t hospitalized and — unlike most people who die from Covid-19 — survived the first 30 days after getting diagnosed. Those patients were 59% more likely to die within six months of diagnosis than VA patients who never caught the coronavirus (about 2.3% of people with the coronavirus died, compared to 1.4% of those without the virus). People who survived the coronavirus were also left with lingering symptoms: They faced an increased risk of lung… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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