Patients With Severe COVID-19 Twice As Likely To Require Future Hospitalizations for Other Illnesses
People who have recovered from a bout of severe COVID-19 may still have a reason for concern about their health. A new University of Florida study has found that patients who had a severe case of the disease were more than twice as likely as patients who had mild or moderate COVID-19 to need hospitalization again for health problems caused by COVID-19 complications.
“People who recover from COVID-19 hospitalization are significantly more likely to be hospitalized later for something else that is likely a complication of COVID-19. In other words, your risk of having other bad outcomes beyond COVID-19 is increased even after you recover,” said Arch G. Mainous III, Ph.D., the study’s led investigator and a professor in the department of health services research, management and policy at the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions, part of UF Health.
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