One Third of Covid Patients Return to Hospital

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Almost a third of recovered Covid patients will end up back in hospital within five months and one in eight will die, alarming new figures have shown.

Research by Leicester University and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found there is a devastating long-term toll on survivors of severe coronavirus, with many people developing heart problems, diabetes and chronic liver and kidney conditions.

Out of 47,780 people who were discharged from hospital in the first wave, 29.4 per cent were readmitted to hospital within 140 days, and 12.3 per cent of the total died.

The current cut-off point for recording Covid deaths is 28 days after a positive test, so it may mean thousands more people should be included in the coronavirus death statistics."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/almost-third-recovered-covid-patients-180255388.html

I can't say this surprises me.  It fits with the pattern of patient age, patient co-morbidities and long covid.

Anything which leaves long-term lung damage limits life-expectancy.  

This is even worse news for our struggling NHS.  The USA with its Trumpian super-spreaders and its need for such gigantic troop gatherings at the capital, not to mention the whole World's collection of covidiots and America's extra share of that pie, is next in line for that set of joys.  I can't get my head around what places like Yemen must be facing.  

This is going to be an endemic disease which keeps mutating (simply because there are so many patients with it) and will probably need a new vaccine every year to cope with the next round of mutations.  We have ourselves to blame; New Zealand showed us what to do and we ignored them.  Trump even described it as a: "Hell Hole".

There are a few rays of hope.  Multiple vaccines were produced in record time.  It is already technically airborne, yet we have imposed a few limits on it.  We have apparently developed a whole new type of vaccines and most of us developed better infection-control measures.

When I was in my teens, people took "O" levels at school.  If there was an expectation of possible failure, they also took "CSE"s, which had a slightly lower bar.  Well, we all passed our Covid Standard of Education, only just:  C-.  We failed the "O"ver level in a spectacular fashion.  

Perhaps we can do better next year in our re-sits.