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Brendan Crabb, Director and CEO, Burnet Institute

Long COVID appears to be driven by ‘long infection’. Here’s what the science says

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Around 5–10% of people with COVID infections go on to experience long COVID, with symptoms lasting three months or more.

Researchers have proposed several biological mechanisms to explain long COVID. However, in a perspective article published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, we argue that much, if not all, long COVID appears to be driven by the virus itself persisting in the body.

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