Long-COVID: what it means and how to manage the longer-term effects
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Long-COVID: what it means and how to manage the longer-term effects

Erin Dean Health journalist

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Many people who have had COVID-19 have reported ongoing symptoms weeks and months after they first fell ill. There is growing evidence that people can experience long-term health effects and about 10% of people with initially mild illness report symptoms lasting more than four weeks.

Primary Health Care. 31, 2, 9-9. doi: 10.7748/phc.31.2.9.s3

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