
The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative has developed new symptom indices for Long COVID in school-age children and adolescents to find 14 symptoms overlapping between the two groups.
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The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative has developed new symptom indices for Long COVID in school-age children and adolescents to find 14 symptoms overlapping between the two groups.
This study provides evidence that using DAAs reduces liver fibrosis and improves clinical outcomes.
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