Latest research has found substantial evidence that the increased risk of death from SARS CoV-2 infection is not limited to the initial disease, but a sequelae of an acute episode of COVID-19 carries with it an increased risk of death in the following 12 months. A study, conducted by a team of researchers at the Departments of Community Health and Family Medicine, and Health Services Research Management and Policy, University of Florida, reveals that the risk of 12-month mortality among adults under 65 who are hospitalized with COVID-19 is increased by 233 percent over those who are COVID-19 negative. The researchers said that the data, the electronic health records for a cohort of 13,638 patients, including COVID-19 positive and a comparison group of COVID-19 negative patients from a single health system, analysed in the study clearly suggested that the biological insult and physiological stress from COVID-19 is significant. The study was published in frontiers in Medicine on 1st December.