Thousands of people who have had Covid-19 are still sick weeks and

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Thousands of people who have had Covid-19 are still sick weeks and months afterwards. Now a team of doctors has come up with a clinical definition of long Covid. We found out why it's so important to identify the illness correctly.

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Doctors say about 15 percent of people who get Covid-19 still have symptoms more than three months later. They call the phenomenon "long Covid" but, until now, there really hasn't been a clinical definition of what that means. Last week, researchers at Harvard University Medical School published a paper that outlines what qualifies as long Covid and what doesn't. Tanayott Thaweethai is the lead author of that paper, and he spoke with the CBC's Leigh Anne Power.

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