Was the rate of Long Covid as high as 45%-a scary report with flaw

EClinicalMedicine. 2023 Apr 13:59:101949. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101949. eCollection 2023 May.

Lan Yao^{1

2}, Gang Wang³, Lotfi Aleya⁴, Marcello Maida⁵, J Carolyn Graff⁶, Dianjun Sun⁷, Weikuan Gu^{2

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¹ Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Health, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 47306, USA.
² Department of Orthopedic Surgery and BME, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA.
³ Department of Pancreatic and Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
⁴ Chrono-Environnement Laboratory, UMR CNRS 6249, Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, Université de Franche-Comté 16, Route de Gray, F-25030, Besançon Cedex, France.
⁵ Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, S. Elia-Raimondi Hospital, 93100, Caltanissetta, Italy.
⁶ Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA.
⁷ Center for Endemic Disease Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Medical University; Key Laboratory of Etiologic Epidemiology, Education Bureau of Heilongjiang Province & Ministry of Health (23618104), 157 Baojian Road, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150081, PR China.
⁸ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 881 Madison Ave, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA.
⁹ Research Service, Memphis VA Medical Center, 1030 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38104, USA.

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