Long-haul COVID: heed the lessons from other infection-triggered illnesses

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¹ The Lyme Disease Research Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. Electronic address: jaucott2@jhmi.edu.
² The Lyme Disease Research Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA.

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John N Aucott et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 13;397(10278):967-968.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00446-3. Epub 2021 Mar 5.

¹ The Lyme Disease Research Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. Electronic address: jaucott2@jhmi.edu.
² The Lyme Disease Research Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA.

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