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"A scientific review of the world's research into long Covid carried out by a
team of leading UK researchers has led them to declare the burden of the
post-infection condition "so large as to be unfathomable".
Immunologist and researcher from London's Imperial College professor Danny
Altmann, who led the review team, talked with
Saturday Morning's Kim Hill
about the findings and the implications of the disease on people's lives and on
the larger scale.
The review was published in
Nature, and said that if 10 percent of acute
infections lead to persistent symptoms (as earlier studies have concluded could
be the case), up to 400 million people could be in need of support for long
Covid worldwide.
While the Australian government has allocated $50m for long Covid research, in
New Zealand there has been zero investment for bio-medical long Covid research
to understand and treat the condition.
Symptoms of long Covid range from the profoundly disabling to 'merely'
upsetting. Those with long Covid frequently display a core set of symptoms,
Altmann says, including breathlessness, fatigue, wheeze, post-exertional
malaise and brain fog.
But about 200 other symptoms are also associated with the disease, and can come
and go, including word-finding difficulties, insomnia, skin rashes and new
allergies.
Research has found signs of damage in long Covid patients' hearts, lungs,
brains and nervous systems, and signs of disease in their immune systems."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
