Queensland Health has apologised over comments made by the state's Chief Health Officer calling for the term 'long Covid' to be scrapped.
John Gerrard earlier this month said that identifying Covid as a sinister or unique virus was "doing more harm than good"."To identify Covid as a particularly sinister or unique virus is doing more harm than good."
Two years ago, Abercrombie said she was training for a marathon, but she now needs a wheelchair after battling the illness since April 2022.Before 2022, Abercrombie had been training for a marathon. "It makes us invisible, that we mean nothing."Chief Health Officer John Gerrard made the comments two weeks ago.
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