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Long COVID leaves newly disabled people facing old barriers – a sociologist explains

  • Written by Laura Mauldin, Associate Professor of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies and Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Up to one-third of COVID-19 survivors will acquire the condition known as long or long-haul COVID-19. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation estimates that long COVID will add as many as 22 million individuals to the U.S....

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