What long covid can teach us about future pandemics
'The reality is that pandemics are going to hit. They're going to hit again,' said Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis who researches long covid. 'It's not a matter of if. It is a matter of when.'
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