Study Finds Higher Mortality Risk for 18 Months Following COVID Infection

Health workers in PPE take a patient from an ambulance in London, UK, on April 10, 2020. Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

COVID-19 patients have an elevated risk of death for at least 18 months after their infection, a new large-scale study suggests.

For the study, published on Jan. 18 in the medical journal Cardiovascular Research, scientists identified 7,500 patients in the United Kingdom who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 16 to Nov. 30, 2020, before any COVID vaccines were available.