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Health systems need to start ramping up services for helping people recover from intensive care treatment for coronavirus, doctors are warning. After spending several weeks on a ventilator, people will need extensive physical and mental rehabilitation care for many weeks afterwards.
“We’re going to have an epidemic of post-intensive-care rehab requirements for people who survived,” says Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care doctor in northeast England. “They’re not going to come back home well.”
Many countries are now …
source: newscientist.com