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On Jan. 18, 2021, several media outlets covered a preliminary draft of a large-scale study investigating the long-term outcome of COVID-19 patients in the U.K. who were hospitalized, recovered, and released. While still in pre-print form and therefore not yet peer-reviewed, it is a potentially significant contribution to COVID-19 literature, using a massive trove of data and conducted by researchers from the U.K.’s Leicester University and the Office for National Sta