Long COVID

Long-term complication of COVID-19

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Long COVID or long-haul COVID is a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. The World Health Organization defines long COVID as starting three months after the initial COVID-19 infection, but other agencies define it as starting at four weeks after the initial infection.

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RCN: Long Covid support still failing NHS staff Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied essential financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body recommended action, according to the Royal.. Credit: ODN Duration: 00:56Published 6 days ago

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