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. 2021 Aug;21(8):1062-1064.
doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00333-9. Epub 2021 Jun 18.

Long COVID has exposed medicine's blind-spot

Matthew J Burke  1 , Carlos Del Rio  2
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Long COVID has exposed medicine's blind-spot

Matthew J Burke et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Aug.
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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests. The content of this article is the opinion of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the University of Toronto, Harvard Medical School, or Emory University School of Medicine (and their affiliated academic health-care centers). We thank Saadia Sediqzadah (Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto) for her helpful comments and review of this manuscript.

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