CONCLUSION
Symptoms may persist for a long time in hospitalized patients, in patients with COVID-19-related pneumonia and concomitant chronic diseases and in patients with high d-dimer and high CRP at the time of admission. Patients are informed that their symptoms may last for a long time, unnecessary hospital admissons can be avoided.
Funding sources : All support for this study came from institutional and departmental resources.
Conflict of interest : We declare that there is no conflict of interest, in particular no financial funding potentially relevant to the contents of manuscript.