In addition to the devastation on health, Covid-19 also has repercussions for patients on work, on the economy and on individual autonomy.
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- Covid-19 affects all aspects of life, not just health.
- Two months later, many people, for example, had to ration their food or medicine because of the financial losses caused by the disease.
- Some people have even become dependent because of the coronavirus, no longer able to provide care on their own.
Covid-19 does not only leave traces on health, it also turns our lives upside down. In a study published on November 11, 2020 in Annals of Internal Medicineresearchers at the University of Michigan noted all the aspects of our lives that were disrupted by Covid-19.
Suffering beyond the physical
To understand what Covid-19 had changed in the lives of people who contracted it, they have 488 surviving Covid-19 patients, about two months after they were discharged from hospital. Within two months of being discharged from hospital, almost 7% of patients died and more than 10% were treated in an intensive care unit.
“These data suggest that the burden of COVID-19 extends far beyond the hospital and far beyond healthcaresays Vineet Chopra, lead author of the study and chief of staff at the University of Michigan Medical Center. The mental, financial and physical consequences of this disease in survivors appear to be considerable.”
More than 39% of the patients surveyed indicated that they had not resumed their normal activities two months after leaving the hospital. At the same time, 12% of patients said they could no longer provide basic care themselves. Almost 23% of patients said they were short of breath just climbing stairs and a third of them had permanent symptoms of Covid-19, such as loss of taste or smell.
Serious repercussions on their lives
Among people who had a job before the Covid-19 crisis, 40% of them think that they will not be able to return to work, either because they have been made redundant in the meantime, or because the problems of health caused by the coronavirus are too great. Nearly 10% of respondents say they have used most or all of their savings, and 7% admitted to starting to ration food, heating and medicine due to cost.
“The number of people struggling after Covid-19 gives new urgency to the development of programs to better promote and support recovery from acute illness,” says Hallie Prescott, lead author of the study and pulmonologist at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
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