If govts admitted long COVID is very real, and very concerning (multi-system disease with neuro-degeneration, renal, cardiac, vascular, and immune dysfunction), the whole approach would have to change from focusing on not overwhelming hospitals to actually tackling transmission.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1478941377421627395
It's interesting that despite the huge levels of accumulating evidence, almost none that is reassuring, politicians, and even many scientific advisors never mention or consider this in advice or policy making. Why?
JCVI - happy to discuss rare theoretical long term effects from vaccines that haven't materialised after millions of children vaccinated across the globe, never consider long COVID, steadfastly against recommending vaccines to children who are being exposed to mass infection.
Our govt only commissions and looks at modelling of hospitalisations and deaths to see if we 'breach NHS capacity' whatever that means - but never consider that we had 3.2 million people infected in a single week end of Dec. What will that mean if even 10% of them get long COVID?
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