China: Wuhan's first Covid-19 patients still suffering after two years

The study, led by doctors at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, comes as China doubles down on its stringent Covid Zero strategy while much of the world lifts restrictions

Two years after being hospitalized with Covid-19, more than half of patients still experience symptoms like fatigue and sleep disruption, according to a study in the original epicenter of Wuhan that underscores the pandemic’s lasting burden. 

Full recovery has remained elusive for people who suffered through the virus’s first wave, meaning patients had poorer health than the general population and required more attention from health-care services, according to a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

The findings bring home the challenge of dealing with Covid’s aftermath as millions of people -- some of them children and teens -- grapple with lingering