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Introduction: Long-COVID patients are individuals that have ongoing symptoms persisting for weeks to months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The incidence is increasing and more studies are necessary to deepen the knowledge of these patients. Objective(s): To investigate the clinical profile, symptomatology and sequelae of long-COVID patients. Method(s): In this observational study, long-COVID patients were included and evaluated by an internet survey. Sociodemographic data were obtained from the patient together with the COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Screening Tool (C19-YRS). Consent of the patient was sought at the beginning of the survey. Result(s): Finally, 89 patients were included in the study. The main age was 43,34 +/-7,85 years, they were overweight, and non-smokers (84%), the 85,4% were females and the median time of infection was 8,18 +/-3,93 months. The results have shown significant impairments in dyspnea at rest or under exercise, personal care, pain, fatigue, psychological distress, and quality of life after COVID infection. Additionally, patients have referred sensitivity of the throat, voice and swallowing impairment, gastrointestinal disorders, and attention and memory problems. Conclusion(s): Patients with long- COVID present multiple sequelae that affect their health status, being necessary more future studies.
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Purpose: The archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to understand it, to think and feel with others and to create a collectivity that, beyond the slogan “we are in this together”, seriously contemplates the implications of what it means to be given an opportunity to alter the course of history, to begin to learn to live and educate otherwise. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is collectively written by twelve academics in March 2020, a few weeks into the first closing down of common spaces in 2020, Victoria, Australia. Writing through and against “social isolation”, the twelve quarantine archives in this paper are all at once questions, methods, data, analysis, implications and limitations of these pandemic times and their afterlives. Findings: These quarantine archives reveal a profound sense of dislocation, relatability and concern. Several of the findings in this piece succeed at failing to explain in generalising terms these un-new upending times and, in the process, raise more questions and propose un-named methodologies. Originality/value: If there is anything this paper could claim as original, it would be its present ability to respond to the current times as a historical moment of intensity. At times when “isolation”, “self” and “contained” are the common terms of reference, the “collective”, “connected” and “socially engaged” nature of this paper defies those very terms. Finally, the socially transformative desire archived in each of the pieces is a form of future history-making that resists the straight order with which history is often written and made. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.