A serious problem faced by those recovering from Corona

Scientists are still striving to uncover the secrets of the emerging virus that appeared in China last December, then spread to the rest of the world, claiming 1,311,032 lives and infecting 53,837,070 so far.

A study revealed a very serious problem that those recovering from Covid-19 suffer from after recovering from Corona infection. Scientists analyzed the medical records of nearly 69 million patients in the United States from January 20 through August 1. The study included 62 people who were confirmed to be infected with the virus.

According to research published in the American journal “The Lancet Psychiatry,” he discovered Researchers From the University of Oxford and the Oxford Center for Biomedical Research in analyzing research findings, about 18% of COVID-19 survivors developed symptoms of mental illness within up to 3 months from the date of recovery.

In addition, this number is nearly double the numbers recorded when infected with other serious diseases, such as SARS and other diseases, according to the newspaper, “The National Interest.”

The study also showed that those recovering from corona appeared to have mental and psychological problems of different levels, starting with insomnia, depression and anxiety, which are the most common, and reaching the point of serious psychological diseases such as dementia and a weak state of the brain.

She indicated that people who had previous psychological infections showed very serious and advanced symptoms of mental illness and were 65% more likely to be infected with the virus than their healthy peers.