Reflections on Long Covid prevention: progress and challenges
A thread
thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
LongCovid does not only affect patients and their life expectancy, but also societal wellbeing and economic indicators (labour participation and economic productivity).
Preventing long COVID should be a public and a global health priority.
🧵
The patient community who, to their credit, first recognized and reported this new syndrome used the term ‘long COVID’ to describe the post-acute and chronic sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection
A thread 🧵
In this study of more than 13 million people
Long Covid after breakthrough infection (vaccinated people who subsequently got SARS-CoV-2 infection) is indistinguishable in terms of clinical features from Long Covid in unvaccinated people
thelancet.com/journals/landi…
In this study of more than 8.5 million people: 181 k with COVID-19 and more than 8 million controls without evidence of infection
We show increased risk of new onset diabetes at 1 year
nature.com/articles/s4159…
In a cohort of more than 153 k people with COVID-19, 5.6 million contemporary controls, and 5.8 million historical controls without evidence of infection
We show increased risks of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases at 1 year