More than a year after the Government launched a top-level advisory group on Long Covid, leading experts worry sufferers are still being let down by the health system. Those concerns have been aired in a series of just-released video interviews, as the Ministry of Health says it’s impossible to quantify how many people are living Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Long COVID’
Long COVID at 12 months persists at 18 months, study shows
Thursday, October 20th, 2022New data suggest that most patients with COVID-19 who have lingering symptoms at 12 months are likely to still have symptoms at 18 months. The findings are drawn from a large study of 33,281 people in Scotland who tested positive for the coronavirus. Most of the results are in line with those from earlier, smaller Read more
Each COVID reinfection raises the risk of long COVID
Monday, July 25th, 2022
The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID. The two most concerning aspects of long COVID are its high prevalence (up to 30% of those infected) Read more
Long COVID affects 1 in 5 people
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Many patients recover from COVID within a week or two, but at least one in five experience Long Covid; persistent or new symptoms more than four weeks after first being diagnosed. Long COVID is a growing concern. But we still don’t have a clear definition and there are insufficient data to provide a trajectory or Read more
Long Covid: My past is foreign, my future is macro
Monday, March 28th, 2022
One morning in early March 2020 I got up, got ready and then walked down to the Lawrence Hill train station in Bristol. It was a Thursday and I was heading into London to work from my firm’s office for a couple of days while staying with my parents just to the north of the Read more
Governments will have to consider the costs of long COVID when easing pandemic restrictions
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer. One of the costliest, it is now feared, could be a tsunami of “long COVID” cases. Long COVID is a serious ongoing illness that follows an acute episode of the disease. It Read more