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  1. Content Article
    This blog focuses on a poster presented at the World Congress on Pain that recently took place in Toronto and discusses the connection between Long Covid and fibromyalgia.
  2. Content Article
    This blog is written by David Osborn, a health and safety consultant, reflecting on the blog written by Anna Carey regarding her guilt about not being able to return to work because of her Long Covid.
  3. Content Article
    This study in eClinicalMedicine aimed to bring together the global evidence on the prevalence of persistent symptoms in people who had experienced Covid-19 infection. The authors found, across the 194 studies included in the systematic review, that 45% of Covid-19 survivors, regardless of hospitalisation status, were experiencing a range of unresolved symptoms at around four months after infection. The authors state that current understanding is limited by heterogeneous study design, follow-up durations and measurement methods, and highlight that definition of subtypes of Long Covid is unclear, which hampers effective treatment and management strategies.
  4. Content Article
    This article from Reuters highlights the results of a survey of 1,002 people which was conducted in October 2022 by market research company Censuswide on behalf of recruitment website Indeed. The survey showed that more than three quarters of British people who have suffered persistent ill health following a Covid-19 infection have had to cut back or change the work they do.
  5. News Article
    Just a “fraction” of people with Long Covid is getting the help they need, with a third of them waiting more than three and a half months to be assessed after a GP referral, rising to almost half in some areas. More than 60,000 people in England had a first assessment for post-Covid syndrome in an NHS specialist service between July 2021 and August 2022. But the latest estimates released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that about 277,000 people with Long Covid in England report that the disease has limited their day-to-day activities “a lot”. These are the people that experts would expect to be referred for an assessment; however, the numbers who have been seen are far lower. Dr Helen Salisbury, a GP and columnist for the BMJ, said: “A fraction of the people who have got this problem are actually being seen” within the existing services. She said reasons could include patients not realising that the help is available to them; GPs not recognising Long Covid in those who do not self-label as having the condition; and a lack of knowledge of, and local access to, specialised clinics. While Salisbury conceded that there was no current cure for long Covid, she added that patients require treatment that involves symptom management, psychology and knowing they are not alone in their diagnosis. Ondine Sherwood, a co-founder of the advocacy charity Long Covid SOS, said many people with long Covid “are struggling to get any healthcare. Many are not getting any treatment at all.” She said public misconceptions around long Covid made it harder for sufferers to ask for and get help. “There was a lack of preparedness for the potential long-term morbidity which was not conveyed to healthcare professionals and this has contributed to the lack of care for long Covid.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 27 October 2022
  6. News Article
    Long Covid clinics across Australia are being inundated with requests for assessments from patients struggling with ongoing symptoms, an inquiry has heard. Doctors told the federal parliamentary inquiry into long and repeated coronavirus infections that they were struggling to keep up with demand as waitlists increased. At least 10 million Australians have been infected with Covid and it is estimated 3-5% will develop Long Covid at some point. “Our waitlist is increasing because what we’ve observed is that it can take some time for the recognition of post-Covid conditions, particularly with the fatigue-predominant types, to reach us,” Royal Children’s hospital Associate Prof Shidan Tosif told the inquiry on Wednesday. Patients are usually referred to specialist clinics through a GP and while there is no official cure, symptoms can sometimes be treated on a case-by-case basis. The inquiry by the House of Representatives health committee is investigating the economic, social, educational and health impacts of long Covid and repeat infections. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 12 October 2022
  7. News Article
    Long Covid is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, and wreaking havoc on health systems and economies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned as he urged countries to launch “immediate” and “sustained” efforts to tackle the “very serious” crisis. The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is also “very clear” that many of those infected by the virus, which first emerged in China in late 2019, are still experiencing “prolonged suffering”, the WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. With the absence of evidence about how best to treat it, Long Covid is turning people’s lives upside down, and many face “often lengthy” and “frustrating” waits for support or guidance, Tedros said. The large numbers of those cruelly affected by the long tail of Covid is also having a dangerous impact on health systems and economies still reeling from waves of infections. “While the pandemic has changed dramatically due to the introduction of many lifesaving tools, and there is light at the end of the tunnel, the impact of long Covid for all countries is very serious and needs immediate and sustained action equivalent to its scale,” Tedros said, writing for the Guardian. Countries must now “seriously ramp up” both research into the condition and access to care for those affected if they are to “minimise the suffering” of their populations and protect their health systems and workforces. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 12 October 2022
  8. News Article
    More than 1 million people in the UK have long Covid at least one year after they were first infected, new figures reveal. The data, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Thursday, comes as other figures suggest the number of Covid patients admitted to hospital in England is continuing to rise amid a new wave of the virus. As of 3 September, an estimated 2.3 million people living in private households in the UK – 3.5% of the population – had Long Covid, equivalent to one in every 28 people. Ondine Sherwood, a co-founder of the advocacy group and charity Long Covid SOS, says the number of people now reporting long Covid – 342,000 of whose lives are “severely impacted” as result – illustrates that this is “not just a personal tragedy but a societal, health and workforce problem”. Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London and expert on long Covid, described the situation as deeply disappointing, noting that while the number of people with long Covid appeared to dip over the summer, it is now clear there is a definite, ongoing, upwards trend. “This reinforces the message that it’s really foolhardy to imagine we can laugh off a massive, growing BA.5 wave as ‘living with the virus’ and ‘no worse than flu’,” he said. “Long Covid and even long Covid from the 2022 Omicron waves continues to wreck lives in people of all ages. I do wish we could just remind everyone to take this seriously – get boosted, keep indoor meetings well ventilated, wear masks indoors and for travel.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 6 October 2022
  9. News Article
    Protesters took to the pavement outside the White House on 19 September to demand a better deal for people affected by Long Covid, complaining that the Biden administration’s plans fell short on action and funding. “The pandemic is over,” President Joe Biden declared the night before in a pre-recorded interview which aired on the news magazine 60 Minutes. “We still have a problem with covid,” he said. “We’re still doing a lot of work on it but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And, so, I think it’s changing.” But the scene outside the presidential mansion the next day belied that message. Wearing black masks and red shirts, protesters called for research, medical treatment, and social services for those with Long Covid. Around half would qualify for a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. The protest was organised by #MEAction, an international network of patient advocates. “I went undiagnosed for 15 years, because doctors are not educated about the condition,” Jennifer Nish told The BMJ. Nish, from Lubbock, Texas, said that she was inspired to help organise the protest to raise awareness. “I don’t want anyone to go through what I had to go through,” she said and called on “the White House to treat this like the emergency that it is.” Read full story Source: BMJ, 20 September 2022
  10. Content Article
    The COVID-19 Recovery Committee has published its report on Long Covid and post-Covid syndrome, urging the Scottish Government to take action to address the stigma surrounding the condition and improve awareness among the public and healthcare professionals. The inquiry focussed on the awareness and recognition, therapy and rehabilitation, and study and research linked to Long Covid, with the Committee noting “concern” in their findings over reports of patients being unable to get the correct diagnosis and the lack of treatment for common conditions associated with the condition. The Committee said it was “deeply saddened” to learn about the stigma faced by those with lived and living experience of Long Covid, and the report highlights the impact that the lack of awareness and recognition of Long Covid can have on those with the condition.
  11. Content Article
    In this blog, published by the World Health Organization, we hear about one family's experience of long Covid. Claire Hastie and her children are yet to recover and continue to experience numerous debilitating symptoms that prevent them from taking part in their pre-covid occupations.  WHO/Europe has also been working with patient groups to define priority areas where action is needed. It is now calling upon governments and authorities to focus attention on long COVID and its sufferers through greater: recognition: all services must be adequately equipped, and no patient should be left alone or have to struggle to navigate through a system that is not prepared to, or not capable of, recognizing this very debilitating condition;  research and reporting: data gathering and reporting of cases, and well-coordinated research with full participation of patients, are needed to advance understanding of the prevalence, causes and costs of long COVID; and  rehabilitation: this cost-effective intervention is an investment in building back healthy and productive societies.
  12. Content Article
    Before she got Covid-19 in October 2021, Professor Kerstin Sailer, who is 46 and from London, had a busy life as an academic and a mum of two daughters. This article tells Kerstin's story of living with Long Covid and its debilitating symptoms, including fatigue, heart palpitations and chest pain. She describes the 'boom and bust' nature of her symptoms and the impact that this has had on her work and personal life. She also talks about the support she received from a Long Covid clinic and how this has helped deal with some of her symptoms.
  13. Content Article
    There has been increasing public concern that COVID-19 vaccination causes menstrual disturbance regarding the relative effect of vaccination compared to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The objectives of this study, published in Science Direct, were to test potential risk factors for reporting menstrual cycle changes following COVID-19 vaccination and to compare menstrual parameters following COVID-19 vaccination and COVID-19 disease.
  14. Content Article
    Factsheet on Long Covid from the World Health Organization.
  15. Content Article
    In this guest post, Michael A. Osborne, Professor of Machine Learning at Oxford's Department of Engineering Science looks at how the medical community is failing to explore the links between Long Covid and ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). He describes the symptoms common to both conditions and highlights the historic lack of funding and attention ME/CFS research and treatment has received.
  16. Content Article
    The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact heavily on all our lives and one of the long-lasting, but unanticipated, impacts is the emergence of Long Covid. Whilst many people infected by Covid-19 may fully recover, significant numbers will experience varied, ongoing and debilitating symptoms that last weeks, months or years following the initial infection. This prolonged condition has been given the umbrella term Long Covid. Recognition of Long Covid was accelerated by people-led advocacy groups such Long Covid Support. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported that, as of 1 August 2021, 970,000 people in the UK were experiencing self-reported Long Covid. The most recent data from 2 January 2023, shows that this has increased to 2 million people This report summarises the findings of a self-selecting survey of 3,097 people with Long Covid in September and October 2022 on their experiences of work.
  17. Content Article
    In this study, Tsampasian et al. looked at what the risk factors were for developing post−COVID-19 condition (also known as Long Covid). The systematic review and meta-analysis of 41 studies, including 860 783 patients, found that female sex, older age, higher body mass index, smoking, preexisting comorbidities, and previous hospitalisation or ICU admission were risk factors significantly associated with developing Long Covid, and that SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with two doses was associated with lower risk of Long Covid. The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis provide a profile of the characteristics associated with increased risk of developing Long Covid and suggest that vaccination may be protective against Long Covid.
  18. Content Article
    This study in Brain, Behaviour & Immunity - Health aimed to examine associations between symptomatic Covid-19 history, neurocognitive function and psychiatric symptoms. The authors used cognitive task performance, functional brain imaging and a prospective population survey to conduct the study. Converging findings from laboratory and population survey data support the conclusion that symptomatic Covid-19 infection is associated with task-related, functional imaging and self-reported indices of cognitive dysfunction as well as psychiatric symptoms. In some cases, these findings appear to be more amplified among women than men, and among older women than younger.
  19. Content Article
    Patients with Long Covid—defined by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as signs and symptoms that persist for more than four weeks following acute Covid-19—may present in primary care with symptoms of palpitations (tachycardia) triggered by standing or minimal exertion. These may be accompanied by dizziness, breathlessness, chest pain, sweating, bloating, fatigue and other symptoms which may be caused by a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (dysautonomia). This practice pointer in the BMJ outlines: how tachycardia present in patients with Long Covid. what clinical assessment should involve. how to test for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in primary care. drug and non-drug treatments that are available. what patients can do for themselves. when patients should be referred to a specialist.
  20. Content Article
    The UK Covid-19 Inquiry is the independent public inquiry set up to examine the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, assess the impact of the pandemic and learn lessons for the future. The Inquiry is Chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Court of Appeal judge. This is a recording of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's preliminary hearing for its third investigation looking at the impact of the pandemic on healthcare. The agenda includes: introductory remarks from the Chair update from Counsel to the Inquiry including designation submissions from core participants. Read the transcript of the hearing.
  21. Content Article
    Stephanie Longe first arrived in the UK from Switzerland in 2019 to work at the High Consequence Emerging Viruses Group at what is now the UK Health Security Agency. At the time, her project was focused on Ebola virus disease survivors. But Covid quickly changed plans. Stephanie and her colleagues had to use their skills to develop Covid treatments and new antivirals. Stephanie was involved in early research to study the Sars-CoV-2 infection, and test vaccine candidates. Then in June 2022, Stephanie had Covid and she is now one of the 2 million people who experience self-reported Long Covid symptoms in the UK.  She shares her experience of Long Covid and the research she is doing in this Guardian article.
  22. Content Article
    This document offers advice and guidance for people with Long Covid who are having difficulties communicating with others as a result of their symptoms. It explains how Long Covid can impair communication by affecting speech, language and voice. It also outlines how many people are affected by Long Covid-related communication issues, explains how speech and language therapists can help and offers simple tips on how to improve communication with Long Covid.
  23. Content Article
    This study in the journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications examined neuropathological findings of patients who died following hospitalisation in an intensive care unit with Covid-19. The researchers conducted brain autopsy on 20 people who had died, followed by ex-vivo imaging and dissection. They found that acute tissue injuries and microglial activation were the most common abnormalities discovered in Covid-19 brains. They also found evidence of encephalitis-like changes despite the lack of detectable virus. The majority of older subjects showed age-related brain conditions even in the absence of known neurologic disease. The findings of this study suggest that acute brain injury alongside common pre-existing brain disease may put older subjects at higher risk of post-Covid neurological issues.
  24. Content Article
    In this article for Stat, E. Wesley Ely, Professor of Medicine and Critical Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, looks at the impact Covid-19 and Long Covid can have on people's brains. He speaks to people with Long Covid who have experienced a sharp decline in brain function, leading to them losing their jobs, struggling to hold a conversation and in some cases developing early-onset dementia. He also highlights biomedical research that has shown changes to the brain in people with confirmed Covid-19 infections, including a reduction in grey matter, problems in the cells lining the blood vessels and impaired cellular metabolism in the frontal lobe six months following acute Covid.
  25. News Article
    Covid is causing liver damage lasting months after infection, according to new research. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, discovered Covid-positive patients had a “statistically significant” higher liver stiffness than the rest of the population. Liver stiffness could indicate long-term liver injury such as inflammation or fibrosis, the buildup of scar tissue in the liver. Dr Firouzeh Heidari a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, said their findings show damage caused by Covid persists for a long time. She said, “Our study is part of emerging evidence that Covid-19 infection may lead to liver injury that lasts well after the acute illness. We don’t yet know if elevated liver stiffness observed after Covid-19 infection will lead to adverse patient outcomes.” Read more Source: The Independent, 4 December 2022
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