Not even one in three people have completely recovered from COVID-19 a full year after being hospitalized with the disease, according to a UK study published on Saturday (April 23) in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal.
The study involving more than 2,300 people also found that women were 33% less likely to fully recover than men, obese people were half as likely to fully recover, and those who needed mechanical ventilation were 58% less likely.
The study looked at the health of people who were discharged from 39 British hospitals with COVID-19 between March 2020 and April 2021, then assessed the recovery of 807 of them five months and one year later.
26% reported a full recovery after five months, and that number rose only slightly to 28.9% after a year.