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Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientist.

This is the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine, and I'm Chris Smith.

And today we're revisiting long COVID. Almost 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be living with the condition, so are we any

closer to finding out what is causing their debilitating symptoms?

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the

Naked Scientists. education, this is the naked scientists. Four years ago the world Health Organization officially recognised COVID-19 as a pandemic.

Since then we've seen the development of effective tests and treatments and billions of vaccinations

administered which have reined in the disease

and turned what was formerly a death sentence for some into a mild infection for the

vast majority.

But while the global health emergency acutely is over, the aftershocks of the infections are still very

much reverberating around us in societal and economic terms and also in post-infection syndromes that are hitting some people.

In the UK alone an estimated 2 million people are suffering from long-term symptoms that last

at least four weeks after their first infection with SARS Kove 2, the cause of COVID, and some

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