Long Covid may affect multiple parts of body and mind
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 16-10-2020
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She and her co-authors urged patients and doctors to log and track symptoms so that health researchers can learn more about the condition and how to ease it as swiftly as possible."Despite the uncertainties, people need help now," she said."We need to collect more data." For this initial report, Maxwell's team held a focus group with 14 members of a Facebook group called Long COVID.
Their testimony suggested ongoing COVID can be cyclical, Maxwell said, with symptoms fluctuating in severity and moving around the body including around the respiratory system, the brain, cardiovascular system and heart, the kidneys, the gut, the liver and the skin."There are powerful stories that ongoing COVID symptoms are experienced by people of all ages, and people from all backgrounds," the report said.
Maxwell said an urgent priority is to establish a working diagnosis recognised by healthcare services, employers and government agencies to help patients get support."While this is a new disease and we are learning more about its impact..., services will need to be better equipped to support people with ongoing COVID, as emerging evidence is showing there are significant psychological and social impacts that will have long term consequences," the report said.