WHO Chief Demands 'Sustained Action' to Help Long Covid Patients

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WHO Chief Demands 'Sustained Action' to Help Long Covid Patients
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'On behalf of the scientific community, health workers, and the patients with LongCovid WHO has worked with, I urge all leaders to seriously ramp up support,' says DrTedros, 'so that we can minimize the suffering and improve the health of those ...

"Current estimates suggest that tens of millions, and perhaps more, have contracted long Covid," writes Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,"and about 15% of those diagnosed with the condition have experienced symptoms for at least 12 months.

"Mostly data is only available from high-income countries, which means that we don't currently have a clear picture on how many people are actually suffering," he continued, but"current estimates suggest that tens of millions, and perhaps more, have contracted long Covid, and about 15% of those diagnosed with the condition have experienced symptoms for at least 12 months."

On the same day as the special parliamentary session, an Australian National University Center for Social Research and Methods/National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health

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