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The study of 475 patients found that one in four either worked less or stopped working. The main reason for this was poor health, with the reduced work most associated with cognitive deficit, said Maxime Taquet, a lecturer at the University of Oxford's department of psychiatry and the study's lead author.

The study only looked at cognitive and psychiatric symptoms and wasn't explicitly investigating patients who had been diagnosed with long Covid, a condition associated with physical symptoms such as shortness of breath as well as cognitive ones. ...