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T E X T  Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months  Later, Study Finds A study of tens of thousands of people in  Scotlan...

T E X T 

Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months 

Later, Study Finds

A study of tens of thousands of people in 

Scotland found that one in 20 people who had been sick 

with Covid reported not recovering at all, and another 

four in 10 said they had not fully recovered from their 

infections many months later.

The authors of the study, published in the journal 

Nature Communications, tried to home in on the longterm risks of Covid by comparing the frequency of 

symptoms in people with and without previous Covid 

diagnoses.

People with previous symptomatic Covid 

infections reported certain persistent symptoms, such 

as breathlessness, palpitations and confusion or 

difficulty concentrating, at a rate roughly three times as 

high as uninfected people in surveys from six to 18 

months later, the study found. Those patients also 

experienced elevated risks of more than 20 other 

symptoms relating to the heart, respiratory health, 

muscle aches, mental health and the sensory system.

The findings strengthened calls from scientists 

for more expansive care options for long Covid patients 

in the United States and elsewhere, while also offering 

some good news.

The study did not identify greater risks of long

term problems in people with asymptomatic 

coronavirus infections. It also found, in a much more 

limited subset of participants who had been given at 

least one dose of Covid vaccine before their infections, 

that vaccination appeared to help reduce if not 

eliminate the risk of some long Covid symptoms.

People with severe initial Covid cases were at 

higher risk of long-term problems, the study found. “The 

beauty of this study is they have a control group, and 

they can isolate the proportion of symptomatology that 

is attributable to Covid infection,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, 

chief of research at the V.A. St. Louis Health Care System 

and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in 

St. Louis, who was not involved in the research. “It also 

tracks with the broader idea that long Covid is truly a 

multisystem disorder,” Dr. Al-Aly said, one that resides 

“not only in the brain, not only in the heart — it’s all of 

the above.”

Jill Pell, a professor of public health at the 

University of Glasgow who led the research, said the

findings reinforced the importance of long Covid 

patients being offered support that extends beyond 

health care and also addresses needs related to jobs, 

education, poverty and disability. “It told us that Covid 

can appear differently in different individuals, and it can 

have more than one impact on your life,” Dr. Pell said. 

“Any approach to supporting people has to be, firstly, 

personalized and also holistic. The answer doesn’t just 

lie within the health care sector.

Long Covid refers to a constellation of problems 

that can plague patients for months or longer after an 

infection. Over the last year, researchers have given 

more attention to understanding the daunting 

aftereffects as the number of Covid cases exploded and 

health systems learned to better manage the initial 

stages of an infection. U.S. government estimates have 

indicated that between 7.7 million and 23 million people 

in the United States could have long Covid.

Globally, “the condition is devastating people’s 

lives and livelihoods,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 

the director general of the World Health Organization, 

wrote in an article for The Guardian. He called on all 

countries to devote “immediate and sustained action 

equivalent to its scale.”

The authors of the study in Scotland tracked 

33,000 people who had tested positive for the virus 

starting in April 2020 and 63,000 who had never been 

diagnosed with Covid. In six-month intervals, those 

people were asked about any symptoms they had, 

including tiredness, muscle aches, chest pain and 

neurological problems, and about any difficulties with 

daily life.

Of those with previous Covid cases, 6 percent 

said on their most recent follow-up survey that they had 

not recovered at all and 42 percent said that they had 

only partly recovered. Women, older people and those 

living in poorer areas faced more serious aftereffects 

from a Covid infection. So, too, did those with pre-

existing health problems, including respiratory disease 

and depression.

Only a small portion of the study participants — 

about 4 percent — had been vaccinated before their 

infections, and many of those with only a single dose. 

“We’re now really heavily reliant upon vaccination,” Dr. 

Pell said, “which does confer some protection, but it’s 

not absolute.”

Adapted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/

UECE 2023.1 - QUESTÃO 83

Among the recurrent symptoms reported by people with long Covid who participated in the study, the text mentions, among others, problems related to 

A) breathing and concentration.

B) exercise and feeding. 

C) motor coordination. 

D) vision and hearing. 

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- The text mentions that in the United States, according to statistics, people affected by long Covid reach the mark of

GABARITO:

A) breathing and concentration.

RESOLUÇÃO:

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PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:

- Dr. Jill Pell, who conducted the research, states that long Covid patients need assistance that goes beyond the health system reach and involves areas such as 

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