Experts estimated the duration of the consequences of COVID-19

The consequences of suffering covid-19 can affect human HEALTH for many years after the illness, experts interviewed by RBC said.

In some people who have been especially seriously ill, the immune system may never fully recover, says immunologist Mikhail Kostinov, who heads the laboratory at the Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums. I. Mechnikov. “After the illness, there is a “post-covid syndrome” for three months, and then a chronic form of defects in the immune system occurs, when the defect can persist for a year, two, three, four,” the DOCTOR explains. According to him, 30-40% of those who have had a severe illness will no longer be able to return to their previous level of health.

There is no unequivocal answer on the consequences of the CORONAVIRUS infection and their duration, says Sergey Voznesensky, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Peoples' Friendship University of RUSSIA. According to him, the “post-covid syndrome” includes a wide range of clinical manifestations - from complications to the lungs to psychosomatic and neuralgic disorders that require long-term rehabilitation with therapists, neurologists and physiotherapists.

“More severe consequences that persist for a long time can be with a complicated course, when acute respiratory distress syndrome develops, viral pneumonia, and especially if the patient is transferred to mechanical ventilation. In this case, patients need a rather long rehabilitation, ”explained Voznesensky.