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  1. News Article
    It has long been clear that Black Americans have experienced high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalisation and death throughout the pandemic. But those factors are now leading experts to sound the alarm about what will may come next: a prevalence of Long Covid in the Black community and a lack of access to treatment. Long Covid — with chronic symptoms like fatigue, cognitive problems and others that linger for months after an acute coronavirus infection has cleared up — has perplexed researchers, and many are working hard to find a treatment for people experiencing it. But health experts warn that crucial data is missing: Black Americans have not been sufficiently included in Long-Covid trials, treatment programmes and registries, according to the authors of a new report released on Tuesday. “We expect there are going to be greater barriers to access the resources and services available for Long Covid,” said one of the authors, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who is the director of Yale University’s health equity office and a former chair of President Biden’s health equity task force. “The pandemic isn’t over, it isn’t over for anyone,” Dr. Nunez-Smith said. “But the reality is, it’s certainly not over in Black America.” In the first three months of the pandemic, the average weekly case rate per 100,000 Black Americans was 36.2, compared with 12.5 for white Americans, the authors write. The Black hospitalisation rate was 12.6 per 100,000 people, compared with 4 per 100,000 for white people, and the death rate was also higher: 3.6 per 100,000 compared with 1.8 per 100,000. “The severity of Covid-19 among Black Americans was the predictable result of structural and societal realities, not differences in genetic predisposition.” "Many Black Americans who contracted the coronavirus experienced serious illness because of pre-existing conditions like obesity, hypertension and chronic kidney disease, which themselves were often the result of “differential access to high-quality care and health promoting resources,” the report says. Read full story (paywalled) Source: New York Times, 29 March 2022
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    Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP today said the SNP/Green Government has “yet again let down long Covid sufferers” as it is revealed that not a single penny of the £10 million announced by ministers last September has been spent. On 9 September 2021, the Scottish Government announced the £10 million Long Covid Support Fund. Now a parliamentary question from Alex Cole-Hamilton and a freedom of information request have confirmed that the money remains entirely unspent. Alex Cole-Hamilton commented: “The latest official statistics showed a record are a record 119,000 long Covid sufferers in Scotland. The SNP/Green Government has let down every single one of them by failing to spend any of the £10 million it announced last September. “Time and again I have pressed Nicola Sturgeon for answers on the absence of long Covid clinics, pressed for automatic referrals and urged the rollout of in-home support for sufferers. Now we’ve learned that none of the money announced more than six months ago has been spent. “Long Covid sufferers need new hope. Scottish Liberal Democrats are determined to see the rollout of proper care. Read full story Source: Scottish Liberal Democrats, 27 March 2022
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    This preprint study aimed to determine the prevalence of organ impairment in Long Covid at 6 and 12 months after initial acute Covid-19 infection. The authors found that single organ impairment persisted in 59% patients at 12 months post-Covid-19. The conclude that organ impairment in Long Covid has implications for symptoms, quality of life and longer-term health, and they highlight the need for prevention and integrated care of Long Covid. 
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    Long Covid could create a generation affected by disability, with people forced out of their homes and work, and some even driven to suicide, a leading expert has warned. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Prof Danny Altmann – an immunologist at Imperial College London – said that the UK’s current approach to Covid fails to take the impact of infections sufficiently seriously, adding that more needs to be done to aid diagnosis and treatment of Long Covid. “It’s kind of an anathema to me that we’ve kind of thrown in the towel on control of Omicron wave infections and have said ‘it’s endemic, and we don’t care any more, because it’s very benign’,” he said. “It just isn’t. And there are new people joining the long Covid support groups all the time with their disabilities. It’s really not OK, and it’s heartbreaking.” According to data from the Office for National Statistics, by the end of January this year about 1.5 million people – or 2.4% of the population – in the UK said they were experiencing ongoing symptoms more than four weeks after their first suspected Covid infection, with 45% reporting that infection was a year or more ago. The findings chime with a recent UK study that found only around one in three patients who had ongoing Covid symptoms after being hospitalised with the disease reported feeling fully recovered a year later. Asked whether Long Covid could lead to a generation affected by disability, Altmann agreed. “Totally,” he said. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 23 March 2022
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    The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Coronavirus was set up in July 2020 to conduct a rapid inquiry into the UK Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. This report outlines the APPG's findings on the incidence, impact and treatment of Long Covid. It includes recommendations for the UK Government to tackle the issues related to Long Covid that individuals, employers and healthcare professionals face.
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    This film from NHS England and NHS Improvement follows patients at the NHS specialist Post-Covid service at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary, one of 90 such services that are now established across England, as part of a £200m NHS investment to support people experiencing the long term effects of Covid. Featured in the film is John, who explains how the ongoing effects of Covid have impacted on his overall health and day-to-day life. As part of his assessment, John gets a psychological and physical check-up from a multidisciplinary team of NHS professionals to help him manage his symptoms and support his recovery. Anyone who is concerned about long-lasting symptoms following Covid-19 should contact their GP, or go online to the NHS Your Covid Recovery website for further advice: https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/
  7. Content Article
    Long Covid Support are keen to hear your experiences of Long Covid service(s) for adults in England. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on the patient experience of healthcare and other support services for Long Covid. Because services differ by nation, this survey is for patients in England only.  This survey has been designed and developed by people who have Long Covid. You can do the survey for yourself, or on behalf of a friend or relative who has Long Covid. The survey will take 15 - 30 minutes to complete depending on your answers. You may save the survey and finish it later as long as you use the same device to complete it. Long Covid Support is a not-for-profit organisation, advocating for those impacted by Long Covid.
  8. Content Article
    People with COVID-19 often have symptoms in the long term (ie, long COVID), including fatigue, breathlessness, and neurocognitive difficulties. The disease mechanisms causing long COVID are unknown, and there are no evidence-based treatment options. Clinical guidelines focus on symptom management, and various treatment options are being evaluated. The scarcity of advice has often left people with long COVID feeling isolated and frustrated in their search for therapies. Research is needed to understand the self-management practices that are being used to manage long COVID symptoms; factors influencing their uptake; and the benefits, harms, and costs. There is also a need to assess the potential harmful effects of polypharmacy and drug–drug interactions in these individuals. The Therapies for Long COVID (TLC) Study (ISRCTN15674970) will begin to explore self-management practices through a survey of people with long COVID. This study aims to be a first step towards understanding this important and under-researched public health issue. 
  9. Content Article
    This article in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics discusses existing knowledge about paediatric Long Covid and looks at how to identify and manage Long Covid in children. The authors recommend three-month primary care follow up for all children who have had Covid-19, to determine whether each child is experiencing ongoing effects after the acute phase of the virus. They highlight the need for relevant medical investigations when symptoms remain to give the best chance of successful recovery, and recommend that psychological support be offered to children where appropriate.
  10. Content Article
    Learn more about Long Covid and common symptoms like fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, post-exertional symptoms exacerbation, and orthostatic intolerance. Produced by Long COVID Physio. Long COVID Physio is an international peer support, education and advocacy, patient-led association of physiotherapists living with Long COVID and allies working internationally across advocacy, policy, guideline development and research.
  11. Content Article
    Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, looks at the material effects on women with Long Covid.
  12. Content Article
    How is the UK handling long Covid, one of the biggest health issues to emerge from the pandemic? A panel of experts brought together by The Independent discussed this and the overall message was that the UK’s response has been lacking. Chaired by Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas and Science Correspondent Samuel Lovett, the panel included Dr Elaine Maxwell, Professor Amitava Banerjee and Professor Brendan Delaney. The session explores the UK’s response in depth from research approaches to provision for patients. Watch back a video of the full event.
  13. News Article
    Deepa Singh, 30, of Louisville, USA, has been seriously ill for two years, racked with extreme fatigue, racing heartbeat and memory problems from Long covid that she says prevent her from working. Adding to her distress, she says, has been a grueling — and so far unsuccessful — battle for disability payments. Singh, who worked as a project manager, is among a cohort of Long Covid patients who have been denied disability benefits, either by private insurance companies, which operate benefit plans offered by employers, or by the Social Security Administration, which manages government disability benefits. Tasked with sorting legitimate health claims from fraudulent or marginal ones, these gatekeepers now face a novel challenge as the coronavirus pandemic drags on: a flood of claims citing a post-infection syndrome that is poorly understood by the medical community and difficult to measure. Patients cite a litany of symptoms that defy verification through basic medical tests. They become exhausted at the merest exertion. They can’t remember simple words. Their hearts feel like they are fluttering. Yet neurological exams, ECGs and chest X-rays come back clean. Doctors said in interviews they are treating Long Covid patients who are clearly too sick to work but who have difficulty meeting the evidence threshold insurers demand: objective medical test results showing an inability to perform work. Specialized tests can measure a few Long Covid-related problems, such as a central nervous system disorder called dysautonomia, which affects the body’s ability to regulate itself. But there are months-long waiting lists for the tests, doctors and patients said. The challenges are similar to those faced for years by people claiming disabilities based on chronic fatigue syndrome. But the pandemic has given rise to such claims on a far greater scale. Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Washington Post, 8 March 2022
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    This study in Nature Medicine aimed to characterise post-acute cardiovascular manifestations of Covid-19 that had not yet been comprehensively researched. The authors used national healthcare databases from the US Department of Veterans Affairs to build a cohort of 153,760 individuals with Covid-19, as well as two sets of control cohorts with 5,637,647 (contemporary controls) and 5,859,411 (historical controls) individuals, to estimate risks and one-year burdens of a set of pre-specified cardiovascular outcomes. The study demonstrated that, following the initial 30 days after infection, individuals with Covid-19 are at increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease, including cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease, pericarditis, myocarditis, heart failure and thromboembolic disease. These risks were evident even among individuals who were not hospitalised during the acute phase of the infection and increased in a graded fashion according to the care setting during the acute phase (non-hospitalised, hospitalised and admitted to intensive care). The authors conclude the risk and one-year burden of cardiovascular disease in survivors of acute Covid-19 are substantial, and that pathways should include attention to cardiovascular health and disease.
  15. News Article
    More than a third of working-age people in the UK now suffer from a long-term illness, with new figures showing a dramatic rise since the pandemic began. Post-Covid conditions, including Long Covid, breathing difficulties and mental-health problems, are among the causes, according to disability charities and health campaigners. An Observer analysis of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) labour market status of disabled people figures shows that nearly 14.2 million people in the UK aged 16 to 64 said they had a health condition lasting for at least 12 months in 2021 – a rise of 1.2 million during the two years of the pandemic. Levels of long-term ill-health had been rising more slowly before the emergence of Covid, at an annual average of about 275,000 cases a year between 2014 and 2018, but the rapid increase over the last two years highlights the health problems facing the UK, says the disability charity Scope. About 800,000 more people suffered from mental-health problems in 2020-21 than did so in 2018-19, Scope said, and the number of people with chest and breathing problems had grown by about 570,000 over the same period. James Taylor, Scope’s director of strategy, said: “These figures show the ongoing shock waves of the past two years continue to affect lives today. We’re concerned things will continue to get worse as time goes on." Long Covid is another factor. The latest ONS long Covid report estimates that 1.5 million have had Covid symptoms for more than four weeks, and 685,000 people had symptoms that had lasted more than a year. Further analysis by Long Covid Kids shows that people with pre-existing conditions are more likely to suffer long Covid than those without. Those whose activity is limited are, on average, more than three times as likely to suffer long Covid as those with no pre-existing conditions. Dr Susannah Thompson was infected in April 2020 while working as a GP in her local hospital’s urgent care centre in north-west England. She made a “slow, gradual recovery” over the next months and was involved in setting up the GP-led vaccination programme until she had a “massive relapse” in January 2021. “It feels like we’re ignoring Long Covid,” Thompson said. “People in the middle of their lives are getting robbed of their livelihoods, at risk of losing their homes. I can’t fathom why we don’t try to prevent it. But we’re not.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 5 March 2022
  16. Content Article
    In this blog, Clare Rayner, an occupational physician, describes how an international collaboration to help understand Long Covid was established by harnessing the power of technology and social media. This collective, between a group of UK doctors experiencing prolonged health problems after Covid-19 infection and a globally renowned rehabilitation clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, aims to help both patients and healthcare professionals by disseminating learning about Long Covid from both sides of the Atlantic.
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    Medical research is progressing to clarify the full range of sub-acute and long-term effects of post-COVID-19 syndrome (Long Covid), but most manuscripts published to date only analyse the effects in patients discharged from hospital, which may induce significant bias. This Spanish study in the journal Scientific Reports aimed to analyse the single and multiple associations between post-COVID-19 characteristics with up to six months of follow-up in hospitalised and non-hospitalised Covid-19 patients. Key findings include: At six months follow-up, fatigue, arthralgia, fever, breathlessness, emotional disturbance, depression, cognitive deficit, haemoglobin, total bilirubin, and ferritin are correlated with the gender of the patient Patients with previous respiratory diseases and abnormal body mass index, ex-smoker, and dyspnoea had a robust statistically significant association. Non-hospitalised patients may suffer more severe thromboembolic events and fatigue than hospitalised patients. Functional lung tests are good predictors of chest CT imaging abnormalities in elderly patients with Long Covid.
  18. Content Article
    What have we learned about the symptoms of Long COVID or Post COVID-19 condition so far? How long does it last, when should you worry, and what treatments are recommended? WHO’s Dr Janet Diaz explains in this video. Part of WHO's Science in 5 series.
  19. News Article
    Lawmakers say minorities may disproportionately suffer from long-term symptoms of coronavirus infection. A pair of Democratic House members asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a letter Tuesday to release data on the number of Americans who suffer lingering symptoms of coronavirus infection, including breakdowns along race, gender and age. The National Institutes of Health and the CDC have launched detailed studies of Long Covid, but those examinations are expected to take years. In the meantime, policymakers lack good information about how many people in the United States and worldwide suffer from long-term, debilitating effects of the disease. “People suffering from Long Covid have been ignored and overlooked for far too long. Collecting and publishing robust, disaggregated demographic data will help us better understand this illness and ensure that we are targeting lifesaving resources to those who need them most,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who co-signed the letter Tuesday to the CDC.“We’re calling on the CDC to publicly report this data because that which gets measured gets done — and we can’t have an equitable recovery from this pandemic without it.” Read full story Source: The Washington Post, 25 January 2022
  20. Content Article
    While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get Long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one.
  21. Content Article
    This blog for the British Medical Association (BMA) by Tim Tomkin looks at growing frustration among doctors that the national guidelines concerning the use of respirators in Covid-19 infection control are still not robust enough, and do not fulfil legal health and safety obligations. He highlights examples of trusts that have led the way in implementing robust personal protective equipment (PPE) policies to protect staff, and research that demonstrates that the use of FFP3 masks reduces infection rates in staff on Covid-19 wards. He calls for more to be done to provide adequate PPE for staff across the health service, including GPs.
  22. News Article
    At least five people in the Netherlands who developed Long Covid through their jobs are planning to sue their employers for financial and emotional damage, according to RTL Nieuws. But lawyers, unions, company doctors and academics expect many more cases will arise and say they could take years to reach a conclusion, RTL said. One case involves a residential care nurse who was told to take care of a patient without protective clothing. It later transpired that the unit manager knew the patient may have had coronavirus. The nurse has been at home for almost two years with Long Covid, and her salary has been reduced in line with sick pay regulations. Ambulance worker Lenny Wagemans is also holding her former employer responsible for her illness. She picked up coronavirus in March 2020 after a patient coughed all over during a trip to hospital. She too did not have a face mask or other protection. Dealing with work related illnesses is often complex and with Covid it is difficult to establish exactly where an infection took place, said Utrecht University researcher Marlou Overheul. ‘You might have picked up coronavirus somewhere else and that can have an impact on a damages claim,’ she said. The Federation of Dutch Trade Unions said last month over 500 healthcare workers face losing their jobs because they are suffering from Long Covid and have been on sick pay for the regulation two years. MPs have voted in favour of a motion which calls on the government to formally recognise Long Covid as an illness and which will ensure all nursing staff are entitled to invalidity benefits. The government has asked the national health council to make recommendations about how to deal with Long Covid which will be published in the first quarter of this year. Read full story Source: Dutch News, 20 February 2022
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    The UK may have now past the worse of the pandemic, but the burden of Long Covid is only going to intensify in the weeks and months ahead. Estimates suggest that well over a million people are suffering from the condition, nearly half of whom have struggled with persistent symptoms for at least a year. Many will have developed Long Covid after the recent Omicron wave, which fuelled millions of weekly infections over the Christmas period. Yet support and treatment for these individuals has been in short supply. The NHS’ dedicated long Covid clinics have struggled to cope with high demand from patients, who feel neglected and ignored by the health system. Some ‘long haulers,’ as they’re known, have come together to form support groups and have regularly petitioned the government for more help and recognition of their plight. Despite the many challenges that lie ahead, there is some hope on the horizon: scientists are starting to make progress in better understanding long Covid and closing in on some of the biggest questions surrounding the condition. To discuss all of these themes, join out expert panel hosted by The Independent's Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas and Science Correspondent Samuel Lovett, with Dr Elaine Maxwell, Professor Amitava Banerjee and Professor Brendan Delaney. Register
  24. News Article
    A doctor who has suffered violent shakes and hallucinations during her ongoing 15-month battle with long COVID has criticised the government's plan to "live with the virus". Dr Kelly Fearnley told Sky News she contemplated ending her own life due to the debilitating long-term effects of coronavirus, which she caught while working on a COVID ward in November 2020. The 35-year-old from Leeds, who was previously fit and healthy, initially had flu-like symptoms before she suffered shortness of breath and painful rashes over her body, as well as swelling around her eye. More than a year later, she is still unable to return to work due to the effects of long COVID, which have included violent shakes lasting up to 14 hours at a time, hallucinations, night terrors, severe pins and needles in her arms and legs, and a resting heart rate of 140 beats per minute. With Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to unveil his "living with COVID" plan on Monday, Dr Fearnley branded it a "strategy of denial, driven by the need to cut costs" and she felt "angry and let down". Read full story Source: Sky News, 20 February 2022
  25. Content Article
    Persistent Covid-19 illness following an acute infection with SARS-CoV-2 can have both a physical and psychological impact. Pharmacists in community and primary care should be able to provide patients with appropriate advice and support to manage their symptoms.
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