Three years into the pandemic, it’s now clear we got some things wrong about long COVID early on.
- Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
We need to take an urgent look at how we manage and treat long COVID. If we don’t start planning now, the problem will only get worse.
These new antivirals are another way of managing COVID-19. But they’re not a panacea, and could even makes things worse.
The hospital system is already strained. And this is what we face as Australia prepares to open up.
It seems things have shifted slightly since earlier in the pandemic. A growing proportion of people hospitalised with the Delta strain are aged in their 30s or 40s.
COVID vaccines don’t contain any live virus to shed. Here’s the science to put the myth of viral shedding after the COVID vaccine to bed.
This treatment would work by targeting the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself and stopping it in its tracks. The evidence we have so far is promising, but it’s still very early days.
Many people are reporting persistent symptoms like headaches and shortness of breath after two months or more since being infected.
In the most severe cases, COVID-19 patients need oxygen pumped directly into their airways, or even be hooked up to a machine that does the job of their heart and lungs.
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