Health
‘Debilitating’: MP calls for more support for Australia’s ‘long COVID’ sufferers – Sydney Morning Herald
There is no name for the illness experienced after a person has recovered from the immediate COVID-19 infection, but the long-term effects can last months.
It follows news from Monday, when Victorian authorities reported a woman in her 70s died from coronavirus-induced damage to her lungs despite having been cleared of the virus.
Commonly referred to as ‘long COVID’, there is no name for the illness experienced after a person has recovered from the immediate COVID-19 infection, but experts say long-term effects can last for months afterwards.
Professor Greg Dore, who has been working on the Kirby Institute’s ADAPT study tracking people with long-term…
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