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I attended the zoom symposium on Long Covid last week which is mentioned in this article. It was a great start in the collective work needed to support people with LC. But it was also a stark reminder of the impact LC is going to have on our country. 1/n
This is a great article summarising some of the key concerns of the symposium - how does our country deal with 10% of the population disabled with Long Covid? How do we support people financially and emotionally? How do people afford their rent or look after their children?
We need financial support, practical home help, focused and compassionate Healthcare, and mental health support for people whose lives and futures have been ripped away. #LongCovid #NZgovt
Far out... the #nz govt #covid19nz response over the last two weeks is depressingly terrible. It's clearly turned into a politically-driven strategy now that is at odds with the best health outcomes. The messaging has stopped making sense and is contradictory. 1/n
The government is now avoiding answering basic questions like who is advising them, why they are ignoring public health experts, what modelling they are using, what sort of case numbers, hospitalisation numbers should we expect, whether Level 3 is likely for long term. 2/n
A few weeks ago govt said: 80-85% of 12+ fully vax'd could result in 4-7k deaths and 2.5 - 5.7k peak in hosp. Yet that is the exact scenario we face given with R1.2 now and it likely to be over a month before double vax rate reaches 80%. Now it's "we use a range of models". 3/n
