Steroids can help patients suffering from long Covid

Severe inflammation from Covid-19 was lowered by 51% if the Covid-19 patient was prescribed anti-inflammatory steroids upon discharge from hospital. — Photos.com

Evidence continues to gather that post or long Covid-19, i.e. continued negative health, impacts months after apparent recovery from severe Covid-19, is an important risk for some patients.

For example, researchers from the University of Florida Gainesville, United States, showed last December that hospitalised patients who seemingly recovered from severe Covid-19 run more than double the risk of dying within the next year, compared to people who experienced only mild or moderate symptoms and who had not been hospitalised, or who never caught the illness.