Preexisting symptoms increase the risk of developing long COVID during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

J Intern Med · 2025 · PMC12239058 · PMID 40464158

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The reasons for this could be a decreasing trend of incident long COVID but also that the condition became less debilitating over time through increasing population immunity and the introduction of vaccines.

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