The effects of coronavirus do not end when patients ‘leave the hospital’, said Wes Ely, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Stat News. And one of the ways that COVID-19 appears to attract in recovering patients has been hospitalized and is having an effect on neurological and psychological well-being – Stat reports as many as 1 in 3 returning patients could experience effects in those areas.
This “COVID fog” makes patients feel they “can not think”, he writes Stat. Since the early days of the pandemic in China and Europe, clinicians have described patients who continue to suffer from issues such as nervousness, cognitive impairment, depression, and fear of their release. It is unclear if and when these people will see their conditions improve, but experts use their experience in treating other pathogens and delirium after staying at Intensive Care Unit, with results of brain autopsies and interviews with patients about a feeling to get from what is really happening.
“We would say that maybe between 30 percent and 50 percent of people with an infection who has clinical manifestations will have some form of mental health issue,” said Teodor Postolache, professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “This can be anxiety or depression, but also non-specific symptoms that include fatigue, sleep, and wakefulness abnormalities, a general feeling of not being at your best, not being fully recovered in terms of the capacities of academic, occupational , potentially physical. “Read more at Stat News.
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