CMAAO CORONA FACTS and MYTH  Post COVID : Dr K Aggarwal

October 3, 2020

With input from Dr Monica Vasudev

India

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New Delhi, October 03, 2020 :

9 in 10 Recovered COVID-19 Patients Experience Side Effects: Study

  1. Nine in ten coronavirus patients reported experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, psychological after-effects and loss of smell and taste after they recovered from the disease, according to a preliminary study by South Korea.
  2.  In an online survey of 965 recovered COVID-19 patients, 879 people or 91.1% responded they were suffering at least one side-effect from the disease, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) official Kwon Jun-wook said.
  3.  Fatigue was the most common side-effect with 26.2% reporting it, followed by difficulty in concentration which had 24.6%
  4.  Other after-effects included psychological or mental side-effects and loss of taste or smell.
  5.  Kim Shin-woo, professor of internal medicine at Kyungpook National University School of Medicine in Daegu, sought comments from 5,762 recovered patients in South Korea and 16.7% of them participated in the survey

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