new REACT-2 data on long COVID

The REACT team from Imperial College London are reporting a new analysis of findings on long COVID from the REACT-2 study.

The study looks at self-reported symptom data from over half a million people included in three REACT-2 rounds, from 15 September to 8 February.

The findings report prevalence of people experiencing persistent symptoms for 12 weeks or more (‘long COVID’) and associated risk factors.

Please note this data is a preprint, so it is early work that has not yet been through peer-review and is not published in a journal.

Speakers included:

Prof Paul Elliott, FMedSci, Director of the REACT programme, and Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Imperial College London

Prof Helen Ward, Professor of Public Health, Imperial College London

This Briefing was accompanied by an SMC Roundup of Comments.

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