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"Karren Hill was among the first Australians to catch COVID-19 when she fell
sick in April 2020. And she was one of the first to discover they weren’t
getting better.
She struggled to breathe, was exhausted, had a brain full of cotton wool and a
headache that wouldn’t ease. All symptoms of long COVID – a term that hadn’t
yet been coined.
“When I was having the breathing problems, I came straight to the hospital –
and they didn’t want to see me,” said Hill. She eventually went to see a
cardiologist. “He didn’t really believe in long COVID, and he hadn’t really
heard much about it.”
As the federal government announced $50 million for research into long COVID
this week, Hill’s story is common in depictions of the illness: a mysterious
illness, a battle for diagnosis, no treatment.
But interviews with some of Australia’s leading long COVID researchers suggest
they don’t see it that way. Indeed, that narrative frustrates many.
“We have arbitrarily called this long COVID. There’s no science to it,” said
Professor Craig Anderson, director of brain health at the George Institute and
lead investigator of a long COVID clinical trial.
Rather than a single illness, some now believe what we call long COVID is
actually several distinct disease processes."
Via
Guardian Australia
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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