The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has defined long Covid as symptoms that persist after three months. Around 2 per cent of people infected with Covid-19 develop long Covid. From August to October I was bed-ridden.”She discovered an online community that had 35,000 people worldwide with long Covid signed-up. She now has another autoimmune condition, Psoriatic arthritis, which she says she developed as a result of long Covid. “We don’t understand what causes long Covid at all.

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2021 06:56 UTC