"It is very clear that long flu is worse than the flu, and long Covid is worse than Covid," said Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University.
The research, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, found that while Covid patients faced a greater risk of death or hospital readmission in the following 18 months, both infections carried a significant risk of ongoing disability and disease.
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