Long Covid could create a generation affected by disability, expert warns

Prof Danny Altmann, immunologist at Imperial College London, says UK’s approach fails to take the impact of infections seriously

One problem, said Altmann, is that different groups of researchers are all following their own favourite hypotheses.

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