Prognosis

Half of Covid Hospital Patients Develop Complication, Study Says

Healthcare workers treat a patient inside a Covid-19 ICU at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia. — Healthcare workers treat a patient inside a Covid-19 ICU at a hospital in Bogota, Colombia.
Photographer: Andres Cardona/Bloomberg

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By Naomi Kresge

July 15, 2021 at 10:30 PM UTC

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One in two people hospitalized with Covid-19 develop another health complication, a U.K. study showed, in the broadest look yet at what happens to those sick enough to need inpatient treatment.