Long COVID's link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis


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  • Thursday, 08 Sep 2022

Lauren Nichols, who has long COVID, takes a break from work to read her blood oxygen levels and heart rate from a machine on her finger in her home in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S., August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Lauren Owens Lambert

CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - Scott Taylor never got to move on from COVID-19.

The 56-year-old, who caught the disease in spring 2020, still had not recovered about 18 months later when he killed himself at his home near Dallas, having lost his health, memory and money.

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