Abstract
COVID-19, the coronavirus disease 2019, an infection of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), needs no introduction. As of 1st March 2022, over 5.9 million individuals have lost their lives to the disease, globally1. Although the world population is hurtling to get vaccinated against this dreadful disease, the scientific community is still grappling with the conundrum of finding cures for the persistent, long-term symptoms (over four weeks after infection) in recovered individuals, commonly referred to as the long COVID-192. Factors such as cellular damage due to either the disease or treatment or both, persistent viral shedding, body’s response to the immune inflammatory process, and the enhanced tendency for blood clotting induced by the infection, have all been hypothesized as contributing factors to the symptom sequelae.
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