The prevalence of so-called “long COVID” has been “overblown” and its incidence is “much lower than people had anticipated,” a leading British medical expert has said.
Talking to Times Radio on Thursday, Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said: “The long COVID thing has been slightly overblown and as soon as you start to do proper epidemiological studies, you find the incidence is much, much lower than people had anticipated.”