{"id":3871,"date":"2023-12-15T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2023-12-15T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T04:25:30","slug":"study-shows-long-covid-worse-for-patients-than-long-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-shows-long-covid-worse-for-patients-than-long-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Study shows long COVID worse for patients than \u2018long flu\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18&nbsp;months after a serious COVID-19 or seasonal influenza infection, patients are at a significant increased risk of death, hospital readmission, or health problems affecting a number of organs, though COVID patients are hit harder, according to a study published yesterday in <i>The Lancet Infectious Diseases<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the chief of research and development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University. Al-Aly has been studying long COVID for the past 3&nbsp;years, and has been interested in studying the differences between the acute and chronic phases of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18&nbsp;months after a serious COVID-19 or seasonal influenza infection, patients are at a significant increased risk of death, hospital readmission, or health problems affecting a number of organs, though COVID patients are hit harder, according to a study published yesterday in <i>The Lancet Infectious Diseases<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the chief of research and development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University. Al-Aly has been studying long COVID for the past 3&nbsp;years, and has been interested in studying the differences between the acute and chronic phases of the disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-shows-long-covid-worse-for-patients-than-long-flu\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study shows long COVID worse for patients than \u2018long flu\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,77,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}