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The long COVID evidence gap in England.


12th Jun 2024

Out of 896 people who reported long COVID to their longitudinal population study, only 5.4% had long COVID diagnoses in their health records. These findings findings by a study published by The Lancet illustrate that 94.6% self-reported long COVID but had no evidence of diagnosis and could therefore reflect unmet clinical needs.

UK LLC has produced a lay summary to help the public better understand the paper.

We spoke with first author, Dylan Williams, about his experience writing the paper and working with UK LLC.