More information continues to emerge about the medical problems COVID-19
infections can cause as our experience with it grows.
One feature that has been summarized more lately is the delirium that can
develop in the ICU patients, or even as a first symptom. Several factors
collectively generate the delirium.

Sometimes it seems like every article about the coronavirus is trying to scare you.
That’s especially true for articles about the long-term impacts of COVID-19. They tend to start the same way: introducing you to someone whose life was terrific before the virus and terrible now, due to some unexpected remaining symptom. There’s a transition sentence — “But Chad isn’t alone” — telling you that other people have this happen to them too. Doctors are interviewed about how likely this is, studies are referenced to the degree possible. Finally, the article returns to Chad, who just wishes he hadn’t gone to that get-together where he caught the virus in the first place.

For people rendered critically ill by coronavirus, the road to recovery will be long and difficult.
Doctors are already weighing up the the aftermath of COVID-19, and how the NHS and social care can help survivors fully rehabilitate.
Even though the UK is more than three months into the health crisis, experts can’t confidently say what the long-lasting impact of Covid will be for some survivors.
Like other people who have been critically ill in intensive care, recovery from the physical and psychological trauma of the virus will be another battle for some patients.
Dougal Atkinson is a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI), part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
For the last three months Dr Atkinson has been working on the frontline of the pandemic caring for Covid patients in the MRI's intensive care unit (ICU).
Dr Atkinson says it can take months for anyone who has been critically ill to recover from the physical and mental strains put on the body while in intensive care.