Clinical And Laboratory Follow-Up After Hospitalization For COVID-19 At An Italian Tertiary Care Center

    February 2021 in “ Open Forum Infectious Diseases ”
    Michele Spinicci, Iacopo Vellere, Lucia Graziani, Marta Tilli, Beatrice Borchi, Jessica Mencarini, Irene Campolmi, Leonardo Gori, Laura Rasero, Francesco Fattirolli, Iacopo Olivotto, Federico Lavorini, Niccolò Marchionni, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Alessandro Bartoloni, Carlo Fumagalli, Maria Vittoria Silverii, Luca Ciani, Chiara Zocchi, Luigi Tassetti, Rossella Marcucci, Betti Giusti, Luca Livi, Lorenzo Giovannoni, Paola Parronchi, Fabio Almerigogna, Francesco Annunziato, Alessio Mazzoni, Laura Maggi, Francesco Liotta, Lorenzo Cosmi, Alessandra Vultaggio, Andrea Matucci, Silvia Sticci, Martina Donati, Cecilia Defraia, Fabrizio Giansanti, Daniela Bacherini
    TLDR Most COVID-19 patients had lingering symptoms 60 days after leaving the hospital.
    The study evaluated 100 postacute COVID-19 patients approximately 60 days after discharge from Careggi University Hospital in Italy. It found that 84% of these patients experienced at least one persistent symptom, regardless of the initial severity of their COVID-19 infection. Additionally, there was a notable rate of hospital readmissions (10%) and new infectious diseases (14%) during the postdischarge period.
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