Can you die from long COVID? The answer is not so simple

By Rose (Shiqi) Luo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
Catherine Itsiopoulos, Professor and Dean, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
Kate Anderson, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
Magdalena Plebanski, Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
Zhen Zheng, Associate Professor, STEM | Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University

Nearly five years into the pandemic, COVID is feeling less central to our daily lives.

But the virus, SARS-CoV-2, is still around, and for many people the effects of an infection can be long-lasting. When symptoms persist for more than three months after the initial COVID infection, this is generally referred to as long COVID.

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