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Nick Gibbs

Rate of long COVID-19 symptoms mirrored by flu patients

John Gerrard says long term symptoms are not unique to COVID when applied to the highly-vaccinated. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A comparison between the long-term recovery of COVID-19 and influenza patients suggests persistent symptoms are not unique to a specific virus.

The study by Queensland Health surveyed more than 2000 people diagnosed with the Omicron variant of COVID and 951 with influenza over a 12-week period last year.

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