Causation or confounding: why controls are critical for characterizing long COVID

Zahin Amin-Chowdhury¹, Shamez N Ladhani^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK.
² Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK. shamez.ladhani@phe.gov.uk.
³ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St. George's University of London, London, UK. shamez.ladhani@phe.gov.uk.

Zahin Amin-Chowdhury et al. Nat Med. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;27(7):1129-1130.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01402-w.

Zahin Amin-Chowdhury¹, Shamez N Ladhani^{2

3}

¹ Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK.
² Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK. shamez.ladhani@phe.gov.uk.
³ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St. George's University of London, London, UK. shamez.ladhani@phe.gov.uk.

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