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Nathalie MacDermott was a regular on BBC News, Sky New and ITV. Then COVID broke out at her hospital.
Emerging evidence suggests a significant number of children develop long COVID, with symptoms lasting for months on end.
‘Long COVID’ – in which people have symptoms lasting more than a few weeks – is turning out to be very common. People hospitalized for COVID-19 are at highest risk, but they aren’t alone.
We will have no idea of the full toll of the pandemic unless we account for those who haven’t yet recovered from COVID-19.
Long-lasting symptoms appear unrelated to how bad your infection was, though women appear more affected than men.
Antibodies that go rogue and attack healthy tissue identified in patients with severe COVID.
An overactive immune system may be behind some of the virus’s long after-effects.
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