Why governments will have to consider the costs of long COVID when easing pandemic restrictions.

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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 is characterised by extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, post-exertional malaise and an inability to concentrate (“brain fog”), among many other symptoms.

The focus, therefore, needs to shift towards protecting quality of life as much as saving lives in the first place.

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[Badbessie]

Sadly long covid is the ignored aspect of the pandemic which I feel in the years to come will have both a health and economic cost to the UK. Basically there are too many unknowns.

[Alberta56]

Our government takes the soft option in dealing with issues like this, ie. burying its head in the sand.

[Annie31]

Well those symptoms are just some of the ones ME sufferers suffer from and look how many years that took to be recognised! It is hoped that Long Covid will be given the attention it needs but I have my doubts sadly..... I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be a post-code lottery illness again - some will get treated and some will not!