Coronavirus: Lancet Finding Shows 33.6% with Neurological or Psychiatric Problems

Long haul health issues related to COVID-19 is something that I personally find very concerning. Before going into the latest article that I've come across, here are some of my more recent posts about the topic: 

1. Mental Health

2. Impact Among UK Medical Staff

3. Long Hual on Those Who Didn't Need to go to the Hospital

4. Rehospitalized

Here is a Yahoo (May 5) article I came across:

Using TriNetX, an electronic health records network with over 81 million patients, researchers for Lancet Psychiatry, a British medical journal, looked at 236,379 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19. They found that an estimated 33.62% of them received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of testing positive for the virus.

. . . “We’ve been seeing a lot of the neurological disorders,” Dr. Suzanne Judd, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, told Yahoo Finance. “When COVID first hit, the people were talking about the cardiac conditions or heart conditions, but now we’re starting to hear more and more talk about stroke and other neurological diseases, [and] some of the blood clot disorders, like blood clots in the legs and in the lungs.”

In my blog post about UK medical staff, the estimates provided in that report was that there were 1.1 million people across the UK that were impacted by long haul symptoms. At the time, there were 4.357 million cases or about 25% of Brits were impacted by long haul symptoms. The above article pegs the percentage at 33.6%. We have 25% in one study and 33.6% in another study. Take the average and we end up with a touch over 29%. Note that both of these were significant studies.

What really caught my eye here is: stroke. Yeah, does one really want to take the chance at having physical limitations for the rest of your life?

Per the Lancet study, the average age of the 236,379 patients was 46.