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Who has long COVID? Finding patients in health records with XGBoost

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Title slide: Who Has Long-COVID? A Big Data Approach, by Dr Emily R. Pfaff and Dr. Andrew T. Girvin, et al. An illustration shows a masked health worker taking the temperature of a masked woman, on a purple background with virus shapes.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people around the world. While most of the population has fully recovered, studies have shown that some people still experience long term effects from their COVID infection— a phenomenon known as long-COVID.

Read about how researchers Pfaff, Girwin, et al. use data and machine learning to identify the population of COVID patients that are more susceptible to long-COVID.

**Disclaimer: This research paper has not been peer-reviewed and is yet to be evaluated. The purpose of this post is to share the data science framework and not to be taken as medical advice.

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