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"Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread
disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people
across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced
productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force.
The intense scientific effort that long COVID sparked has resulted in more than
24,000 scientific publications, making it the most researched health condition
in any four years of recorded human history.
Long COVID is a term that describes the constellation of long-term health
effects caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These range from
persistent respiratory symptoms, such as shortness of breath, to debilitating
fatigue or brain fog that limits people’s ability to work, and conditions such
as heart failure and diabetes, which are known to last a lifetime.
I am a physician scientist, and I have been deeply immersed in studying long
COVID since the early days of the pandemic. I have testified before the U.S.
Senate as an expert witness on long COVID, have published extensively on it and
was named as one of
Time’s 100 most influential people in health in 2024 for
my research in this area.
Over the first half of 2024, a flurry of reports and scientific papers on long
COVID added clarity to this complex condition. These include, in particular,
insights into how COVID-19 can still wreak havoc in many organs years after the
initial viral infection, as well as emerging evidence on viral persistence and
immune dysfunction that last for months or years after initial infection."
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
