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Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, is being seen in a growing number of patients reporting a constellation of symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection that are persistent, debilitating, and have yet to be fully explained by known or measurable mechanisms. These symptoms include fatigue, cognitive difficulties, mood dysregulation, headaches, insomnia, dizziness, and a variety of other neurological, neuropsychiatric, autonomic, and systemic symptoms.
Source: Long COVID has exposed medicine's blind-spot (The Lancet)
The antecedent of the clause "that are persistent, debilitating..." appears to be "a constellation of symptoms" and thus is taken as either singular or plural. But the plural form "that are persistent, debilitating..." sounds better than "that is persistent, debilitating..." I can't clearly tell why.
Why the plural form "that are persistent, debilitating..." sounds better than the singular form "that is persistent, debilitating..."?
Source: Long COVID has exposed medicine's blind-spot (The Lancet)
The antecedent of the clause "that are persistent, debilitating..." appears to be "a constellation of symptoms" and thus is taken as either singular or plural. But the plural form "that are persistent, debilitating..." sounds better than "that is persistent, debilitating..." I can't clearly tell why.
Why the plural form "that are persistent, debilitating..." sounds better than the singular form "that is persistent, debilitating..."?