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Sleep disturbance following hospital admission for COVID-19 is associated with dyspnoea, anxiety, and muscle weakness. Due to the association with multiple symptoms, targeting sleep disturbance might be beneficial in treating the post-COVID-19 condition.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health restrictions including self-isolation of positive cases and their close contacts were vital to reduce onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2, thus preventing deaths and the potential overwhelming of health-care services. However, the requirement for prolonged and often repeated episodes of self-isolation has had an enormous impact on individuals' psychological, financial, and educational wellbeing, disproportionately affecting those on lower incomes, the self-employed, and those unable to work from home.
This study estimates the proportion of males and females, younger or older than 20 years of age, affected by at least 1 of the 3 Long COVID symptom clusters (pe