TITLE:
Ex-Patients with COVID-19: Observations after Healing and Its Consequences*
AUTHORS:
José Humberto Cardoso Resende, Aline Correia Barbosa, Arley Braz Gomides, Daniel Asafe Ferreira Rocha, Gabriela Costa Santos, Helena Beatriz Gonçalves Pôrto, Mariana Palmeira Dias De Souza, Rainy da Silva Rogério, Tágara Alessandra Oliveira Kamimura, Emídio Silva Falcão Brasileiro
KEYWORDS:
Corona, COVID, Disease, Infection, Pandemic, Pneumonia, Thrombosis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Epidemiology,
Vol.11 No.1,
December
23,
2020
ABSTRACT: During the SARS-Cov-2 or COVID-19 clinical course pandemic of the coronavirus family, we observed symptoms of the respiratory tract, fever, cough, sore throat, and fatigue. The most common symptoms were loss of smell and taste and, when aggravated, it could develop into pneumonia and even death. We selected 40 former COVID-19 patients, who answered a questionnaire with questions about the symptoms and complications after they were cured and which symptoms remained or appeared after the total isolation quarantine for a specific time. Among the answers, the most cited was about “forgetting”. Another observation noted was the number of cases in children, which surprised us, considering that, at the beginning of the pandemic, the danger was more related to the elderly population and those with comorbidities.