Long Covid is a debilitating illness that lasts for at least 8 months, affecting hundreds of thousands in the UK, and by extension millions worldwide. Here are the facts - what we do and don't know at this stage, who gets it, what the symptoms are, whether it's contagious and why you shouldn't try to exercise yourself out of it.

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The Long Covid Handbook (Oct 2022), by Gez Medinger and Professor Danny Altmann and published by Penguin Books is now available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. A singular resource that brings together everything patients, clinicians and academics have learnt about the condition since early 2020, as well as lessons from sufferers and researchers of ME/CFS and other chronic conditions. It offers world leading expert advice on understanding, managing and treating Long Covid. The Long Covid Handbook is available from the following links:

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Inability to go back to work:
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Activity level of long haulers, age profile:
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Afrin et al: Symptom list
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BBC article, 300,000 cases in UK
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Cirulli et al: 24% of covid cases have long lasting symptoms?:
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