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Why governments will have to consider the costs of long COVID when easing pandemic restrictions

  • Written by: Richard Meade, Research Fellow in Economics, and in Social Sciences & Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
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With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer.

One of the costliest, it is now feared, could be a tsunami of “long COVID” cases.

Long COVID is a serious ongoing illness that follows an acute...

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