Covid, one in five patients return to hospital in the six months following recovery

Sometimes the poison is in the Covid tail. Even after the negative swab, 50,000 Lombard citizens who survived the first wave remained tied to visits, examinations and hospitalizations. The number of services provided to them by the Lombardy Region has increased by 50 times compared to the pre-pandemic period for tests such as spirometry which measures the ability to function of the lungs, by 32 times for the chest CT scan and by almost 6 times for the lungs. ‘electrocardiography.