Health
Two Years After Catching Covid, Patients Still Risk Getting Sick
- Large study points to breadth of new pandemic-induced diseases
- Hospitalized patients have higher mortality risk, study finds
A physician listens to the breathing of a recovering Covid-19 patient in The Hague, Netherlands.
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The risk of new disease, disability and death remains elevated in some patients as long as two years after catching Covid-19, according to a large study showing the infection’s prolonged heath impact.
People who were never sick enough to be hospitalized for acute Covid still had a higher risk than uninfected people of developing long Covid-related disorders such as dangerous blood clots, diabetes and lung, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal disease two years later, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.