Experts at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University have been conducting follow-up visits with 100 COVID-19 patients who recovered since April.
Here's what they found:
90% of the patients’ lungs are still damaged. The ventilation and gas exchange function of their organs hasn’t recovered yet to match the level of healthy people, according to the State-run Global Times.
The recovered patients could hardly walk 400 meters in six minutes, while their healthy peers could walk over 500 meters in the same duration.
Some of the recovered COVID-19 patients rely upon oxygen machines even three months after being discharged from their hospital.
In 10% of these recovered patients, the antibodies against the novel coronavirus have disappeared.
5% of them received negative results in nucleic acid tests but positive in Immunoglobulin tests and have been quarantined again. A positive IgM test result indicates that a person has just been infected since Igm is the first antibody secreted by the immune system.
The recovered patients’ immune system hasn’t completely recovered as they revealed low B cell levels.
Less than 50% of these recovered patients have returned to work.
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