Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: The #WHO's recent update on #LongCovid suggests around 6% of those infected go on to ...
The #WHO's recent update on #LongCovid suggests around 6% of those infected go on to suffer from forms of long covid; in #Europe they currently estimate that in the first two years of the pandemic around 17mn people were effected by an extended period of illness associated with their original #covid infection.
For scientists & #doctors the problem is its wide range of symptoms: the complexity of long covid suggests that will be no 'silver bullet' cure.
We may be living with it for some time
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