Patients Who Recover From Severe COVID-19 Still Have Significant Risk of Death, UF Study Finds

Patients who have recovered from severe COVID-19 have more than twice the mortality risk within the year following their illness than people who have not contracted the virus.

The study by University of Florida researchers, who previously reported that patients who had a severe case of the disease were more than twice as likely to need rehospitalization for COVID-19 complications, underscores the serious effects the virus can have on the body. The study appears in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.

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