A parliamentary report has estimated between 2 and 20 per cent of people infected with COVID are developing a lingering condition more than three years after the first virus cases were detected in Australia.
“There’s a bit of scepticism about – is this real or not? I can assure people this is real,” he said. “It is having a real effect on people. And in particular, it’s having a big effect on, [I believe], productivity and the economy.”new analysis by Impact Economics and Policy
“What we uncovered was that there is a diagnosis, data and treatment gulf when it comes to long COVID in this country.” McIntosh said a consistent definition, education program for GPs and boosted funding for multidisciplinary long COVID clinics in state hospitals – which also needed to reach people in the regions – were important short-term measures to ensure people received the best level of care.
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