Manchester Covid patients to take part in study on long-term impact of the virus
in many cases even without hospital admission.For those patients who have been hospitalised, the longer-term consequences can be more serious, hence covid being described as a 'modern day polio'.It's led to growing concerns in the medical community that some patients may need a clear long-term treatment plan to give them the best outcome.Alex Horsley, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Wythenshawe Hospital and a reader at the University of Manchester, is also director of the clinical research facility at Wythenshawe.He says while during the peak there were up to 200 inpatients on Covid wards they are now seeing just one or two admissions a day.He is leading the Manchester branch of the study.Dubbed Phosp-Covid, it's aimed at investigating