Whether it’s your blood type, pre-existing conditions or even your race - there’s been great debate about what makes you likely to catch Covid, and how badly. But what about the brutal long tail, affecting what studies show could be up to 1 in 5 cases? Why might YOU be written off for months and months, whilst your buddy bounces back in weeks?

This film details the findings from a new study of 824 Long Haulers, looking at which pre-existing conditions might determine their risk factor for developing Long Covid. The questions were investigating a hypothesis that certain immune and allergic conditions could be correlated with Long Covid, but I wasn’t expecting the data to come back this clearly!

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The Long Covid Handbook (Oct 2022), by Gez Medinger and Professor Danny Altmann and published by Penguin Books is now available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. A singular resource that brings together everything patients, clinicians and academics have learnt about the condition since early 2020, as well as lessons from sufferers and researchers of ME/CFS and other chronic conditions. It offers world leading expert advice on understanding, managing and treating Long Covid. The Long Covid Handbook is available from the following links:

US: https://a.co/d/0gvkJCU

UK: https://amzn.eu/d/9KjurGb
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