One in eight infected has prolonged symptoms of COVID – El Día de Valladolid

The coronavirus is still there and, in addition, it leaves its mark once the disease is overcome. And it is that one in eight adults (12.7 percent) infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long-term symptoms. This is suggested by a large Dutch study published yesterday in The Lancet, which provides one of the first comparisons of persistent symptoms after infection with symptoms in an uninfected population, as well as measuring these parameters in individuals both before and after infection. be positive in COVID-19. The inclusion of uninfected populations allows a more accurate prediction of the prevalence of long-term disease symptoms, as well as a better identification of the main symptoms of long-term COVID. «There is an urgent need of data reporting on the scale and extent of long-term symptoms experienced by some patients following COVID-19 illness,” said Professor Judith Rosmalen, University of Groningen, lead author of the report. “However, most previous research on prolonged COVID has not looked at the frequency of these symptoms in people who have not been diagnosed with coronavirus or looked at individual patient symptoms before testing positive,” he added. The disease continues its evolution in the world and, specifically in Spain, the Ministry of Health registered yesterday, with data provided by the communities, 20,188 new positives for coronavirus, of which 11,564 were identified in those over 60 years of age, which raises to 2,891,714 the total number of infections in the country since the start of the pandemic. Regarding the current average incidence of infections in the last 14 days in people over 60 years of age, the report shows a drop of more than 80 points, reaching in the 395.83 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the 475.95 reported last Tuesday by the department led by Carolina Darias. In the past two weeks, a total of 48,758 positives were recorded in this age group. As for those who died from COVID-19, 381 more were registered, which means that the global death toll from coronavirus in Spain rises to 111,094 people. Currently, there are 6,697 patients admitted for the disease throughout the country and 393 in an ICU. In addition, the occupancy rate of beds occupied by coronavirus stands at 5.70 percent.