ICMR Report: Increased mortality due to prolonged COVID-19, no evidence of deaths from vaccine
The study found a higher chance of dying within one year after discharge in males, those more than 40 years of age, those with comorbidities and in those who had moderate-severe COVID disease to begin with. Out of 14,419 participants contacted 6.5% all- cause mortality were reported.
These results relate to patients who had been hospitalized during their initial COVID-19 infection and cannot be generalized to all COVID-19 patients. Image Courtesy: Reuters.