“Taking your chances that you might get COVID-19 but that it will be mild, or that you will just rely on treatments to pull you through a severe episode is a course of action with big risks.” Mainous said, “Treatment in the hospital is the initial episode, but our strategy should focus on keeping people out of the hospital in the first place.” They found that the vast majority of deaths among people who had had COVID-19, nearly 4 out of 5 of these deaths, were not due to cardiovascular or respiratory illness, despite much existing research into the impact of COVID-19 on these systems. The team then analyzed the healthcare records to determine cause of death and compared the risk of death for people who had had COVID-19 with that of people who had not tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. They found that 2,686 people in the cohort had died. The researchers then evaluated the electronic healthcare records of these people, following them for 365 days after the first PCR test. The rest were negative for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.
Of this number, 178 people were classified as having severe disease. Out of 13,638 people tested for COVID-19 between January 1 and June 30, 2020, 424 people were found to have COVID-19. People who died within 30 days of their COVID-19 tests were excluded from the analysis. To measure the impact of COVID-19 on long-term health, researchers from the University of Florida looked at electronic healthcare records from patients tested for COVID-19 in any setting in the University of Florida health system, both in Gainesville and Jacksonville. The overall trauma or psychological insult to the body would be dramatic enough to create lasting damage.”
“We thought that the impact of COVID-19 would be significant enough to engender complications. We were interested in the hard outcome of death after COVID-19 recovery.” Some people are focusing on ‘long COVID’ or persistent symptoms like brain fog or lack of smell. Arch Mainous, an author of the paper, told Medical News Today in an email: “A lot of interest in the scientific community has focused on what happens to patients after having an episode with COVID-19. Nearly 80% of all deaths of people in the study who had recovered from COVID-19 in the past 12 months were not due to cardiovascular or respiratory causes, suggesting that the impact of the virus is significant and wide-ranging, even after the initial infection has been fought off. Scientists have now shown an increased risk of death among COVID-19 survivors 12 months after the infection.įor people younger than 65 who were hospitalized with COVID-19, the risk of death in the 12 months after the infection was 233% higher than it was for people who did not have the disease, results published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine have shown. However, these figures are unlikely to reveal the true impact of COVID-19 on the population. The total number of recorded COVID-19 deaths has passed 5 million globally, with over 750,000 deaths in the United States alone.
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