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YorkRd

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Tue Feb 1, 2022, 09:04 AM Feb 2022

What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer.

What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer.
“We are really working day and night” to figure out long Covid, one researcher said.

Even as the number of new Covid-19 cases in the US is dropping, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still testing positive every day. More than 28 million new cases have been reported since Omicron emerged in the US just two months ago, and the variant now drives 99.9 percent of cases, as of January 22, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thanks to vaccines, boosters, and increasingly available treatments, most people who get infected today won’t end up in the hospital or die. A big question, however, looms over the survivors: What about long Covid?


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What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer. (Original Post) YorkRd Feb 2022 OP
Interesting. Reading later. 👀 underpants Feb 2022 #1
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