We calculated the impact of 'long COVID' as Australia opens up. Even without Omicron, we're worried

  • Written by: Martin Hensher, Associate Professor of Health Systems Financing & Organisation, Deakin University
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Over the past two years, we’ve learned COVID-19 survivors can develop a range of longer-term symptoms we now call “long COVID”. This includes people who did not have severe illness initially.

Such longer-term symptoms can affect multiple systems in the body. This can result in ongoing, severe fatigue plus a wide range...

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