03.14.2024 - By ABC listen
Queensland's Chief Health Officer says the term "long-COVID" should be scrapped, saying its use implies there's something unique about longer term symptoms associated with COVID infection.
Queensland Health research, due to be presented to a European conference in late April, found that a year after infection there was no evidence of worst post-viral symptoms if infected by COVID-19 when compared with influenza or other respiratory illnesses.
It's an area of research that is contested, with different definitions of what long-COVID is and different ways data is collected.
Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor talk about the study and add a bit of context as to what research has come before, and what this might mean from people who report long-COVID symptoms months and years after infection.