Some infections are tougher to recover from than others. Take COVID-19 infections, for instance. According to a new study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, people with COVID and COVID-like symptoms typically take around nine months to recover from their infections mentally, and around three months to recover from their infections physically, suggesting that mental recovery is a particularly lengthy process that requires more study and more medical attention.
“We have newly recognized the difference in recovery with respect to mental [versus] physical well-being after a COVID infection,” said Lauren Wisk, a study author and an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, according to a press release. “The findings [show] that health care professionals need to pay more attention to their patients’ mental well-being after a COVID-19 infection and provide more resources that will help improve their mental health, in addition to their physical health.”
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