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Covid symptoms last a year for many patients: study
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Fatigue and shortness of breath still afflict many patients a year after their hospitalisation for Covid-19, according to a new Chinese study calling for a better understanding of the pandemic's long-term health effects.
Around half of patients discharged from hospital for Covid still suffer from at least one persistent symptom - most often fatigue or muscle weakness - after 12 months, said the study published in British medical journal The Lancet.
The research, the largest yet on the condition known as "long Covid", added that one in three patients still have shortness of breath a year after their diagnosis.
That number is even higher in patients hit more severely by the illness. "With no proven treatments or even rehabilitation guidance,
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