WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, drjohnwhyte speaks with EricTopol, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Medscape, about our current understanding of long COVID causes, symptoms, treatments, and advocacy. 📹
We have one at Scripps. Obviously, many health systems – Mount Sinai has a very active one in New York, where you are today. I think this, of course, is helpful because it's by having all systems covered, all the different specialties, hopefully, we can understand the condition better and eventually come up with effective treatments.
So, at one point – correct me if I'm wrong – we thought, maybe if you got a booster, or if you got vaccinated right after the fact, that seemed to help some people, but I'm not sure that has panned out. What's the latest in terms of, do we just try to treat underlying symptoms? You know, any symptom – that's never an ideal process.
We do know that, with Omicron, there was about a 50% to 70% less frequency of long COVID so far, compared with Delta. However, because Omicron led to an order of magnitude more infections, it led to lots of long COVID as well. But now, outside of that, like you said, if there's a particular symptom that's dominant that's the problem, you could at least get attention for that. This is a very sticky issue. I wish we had more progress being made. It's really disconcerting.But what needs to be done? Do we need to be advocating for more research dollars? Do we need to think about the regulatory approval process? This is a global issue, not just the United States.It's global. Yeah.
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