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COVID-19 deaths wipe out an average 15 years of life, symptoms linger in young – Sydney Morning Herald
COVID-19 deaths are wiping more than a decade of life expectancy from those who die from the disease, while some survivors suffer ongoing symptoms.
The institute’s Professor Gregory Dore, who recruited patients for the study at a testing clinic at St Vincent’s Hospital where he is an infectious diseases physician, said “at least 20 per cent” of a representative sample of 72 randomly selected participants who had not been hospitalised reported symptoms three months after clearing the virus.
“These ongoing, debilitating symptoms don’t appear to be correlated with age…
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