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Return visits to hospital for additional care were common for many early COVID-19 patients as the disease’s impact lingered, new study finds

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The Northwestern Medicine study, published Friday in a peer-reviewed science journal that focuses on aging, found that more than 20% of the surviving patients who were admitted to the hospital during the first month of the pandemic returned to the hospital within four months. Of those, 12% returned in the first 30 days.

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