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Long Covid’s Effects Go Beyond Respiratory Issues
The coronavirus can attack multiple organs and weaken overall immunity for months. Its impacts are evident in global death rates that remain high.
19 Dec 2022, 01:56 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- When Covid-19 struck Jerry Guerinot in January 2021, the stocky 77-year-old defense attorney, who already had diabetes and heart disease, developed double pneumonia and was given a 5% chance of survival. After three months in a Houston hospital, he beat those grim odds. But Guerinot’s scarred lungs and weakened immune system set him up for new infections requiring further hospitalization and rounds of phys...
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