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Patients with COVID-19 who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) could have a greater risk of long-term health issues. Additionally, people requiring intensive care are at increased risk for mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. Impaired lung function from SARS-CoV-2 infection can negatively affect other organs like the heart, kidneys, and brain, with significant health impacts that may last after getting over the infection.

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The article contains the definition of Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and it's syndrome, definition of PICS-Family, and what friend and family's member can do to help.

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Most Covid-19 patients have no symptoms or experience only mild to moderate symptoms.
Two-thirds of sufferers do not have any symptoms at all (asymptomatic), while 90% are symptom-free three weeks after their symptoms first appear.
However, the remainder experience either persistent symptoms or a pattern of symptoms improving, then reappearing (relapsing and remitting).
Recovery from Covid-19 typically takes two to six weeks after the onset of symptoms.
The term post-Covid-19 syndrome is used for clinical features that develop during or after an infection consistent with Covid-19, and continue for more than 12 weeks without an alternative diagnosis.

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Doctors have gradually come to realize that people who survive a serious brush with death in the intensive care unit are likely to develop potentially serious problems with their memory and thinking processes.

This dementia, a side effect of intensive medical care, can be permanent. And it affects as many as half of all people who are rushed to the ICU after a medical emergency. Considering that 5.7 million Americans end up in intensive care every year, this is a major problem that until recently, has been poorly appreciated by medical caregivers.

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Almost 6 million patients land in an intensive care unit every year, and for many, it marks a turning point in their lives. A substantial number of patients leave the ICU with newly acquired problems, from dementia to nerve disease. Medical leaders have developed new standards to reduce the use of drugs and get patients moving, but adoption has been slow. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports.

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Research suggests that as many as 10% of Covid-19 patients suffer long-term symptoms, a phenomenon that remains poorly understood by researchers. Reporting for Vox, Julia Belluz outlines five leading hypotheses to explain so-called "long Covid."

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Young, healthy people can suffer for far longer than even a bad flu, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found. One in five adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they didn't feel back to normal two or three weeks after their diagnosis. "A lot of people don't realize, even if the virus is gone, that doesn't mean you're done with it," said Sullivan. "It's done its damage."

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While neuropsychologists Erin Kaseda and Andrew Levine were researching the possibility of hospitalized Covid-19 patients developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they heard reports of patients experiencing vivid hallucinations. Restrained by ventilators and catheters, delirious from medication and sedatives and confused by the changing cast of medical professionals cycling through the ward, intensive care unit (ICU) patients are especially prone to trauma. For Covid-19 ICU patients, a combination of factors, including side effects of medication, oxygenation issues and possibly the virus itself, can cause delirium and semi-consciousness during their hospital stay. Kaseda says as these patients slip in and out of consciousness, they may visualize doctors wheeling their bodies to a morgue or see violent imagery of their families dying. Such instances, though imagined, can cause trauma that may lead to PTSD in patients long after they have physically recovered from Covid-19.

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On April 13, the CDC and FDA suggested that organizations halt the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, due to the fact that there have been 6 reported cases of severe blood clots in the United States that appear to be in response to the vaccine. To date, almost 7 million doses of the J&J/Janssen vaccine have been distributed, raising alarm amongst individuals who have received the vaccine.

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Paul Nappi arrived at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center's intensive care unit suffering from a severe lung problem on March 8.
The 53-year-old Chester County man, already depleted by cancer treatments and a December bout with pneumonia, was unconscious and hooked to a breathing machine. His family was told he might not make it through the night.
They also were given a small spiral notebook labeled ICU Healing Journal. The family could fill it with words that could help hospital staff understand who Nappi is. Doctors, nurses, and therapists would add entries offering support and explaining what Nappi was going through. The journal could help him adjust to life after the ICU — if he survived.

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Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group is developing a programme of support and care for those suffering ‘long covid’ – long-term health effects following a Covid-19 infection.

The CCG is working with hospitals, GPs and other healthcare professionals to make sure it can provide the right services and advice for people as they recover.

To help with this the CCG wants to hear from anyone in Kent and Medway who has had Covid-19 and has continued to experience symptoms over a longer period of time – particularly for more than three months, and also from family carers.