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16 September 2021

How common is long COVID? That depends on how you measure it

The ONS has worked at speed to help inform the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But producing reliable estimates as the pandemic unfolds is challenging, particularly for emerging phenomena such as “long COVID”, which is not yet fully understood or well defined. Daniel Ayoubkhani writes about the challenges of defining the condition as well as estimating the numbers of people suffering from it.

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