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Looks like I can still edit the title. Care to make a suggestion how to phrase it?

"Less than 20% of hospitalised COVID-19 patients symptom free after a year"

should work; it's easy to infer that "after a year" refers to their hospitalisation anyway. If that is still too long: "Less than 20% hospitalised COVID patients symptom free after a year"

Your dropped the "after recovery". Which I think is the central point of the article. That even when we consider people to have recovered, the majority still has symptoms.

What else would "after a year" mean though? People don't usually have COVID for that long.

Under 20% of in-patient COVID-19 infected symptom free a year after recovery

Use a < symbol instead of "less than", or change "a year after recovery" to "after a year" or something. The hospitalized part is pretty essential though.

Starting a title with a "<" sign seems pretty confusing to me.

And dropping the "after recovery" goes astray from the central point of the article. That we are mistaken when we think that people have recovered.

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