Post by Nadica (She/Her) on Jul 13, 2024 22:34:43 GMT
Long COVID politics and activism - Published July 13, 2024
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) has been described as a mass disabling event. Many people around the world have lost their jobs, homes, health, and social lives to a virus that sits in the nerves, tissues, blood, brain, and gut. Although rapid medical innovation for diagnostic tests, treatments, and effective vaccines for COVID-19 was largely efficient and effective, there are no verifiable tests for long COVID or a silver-bullet therapy to treat it. Even so, governments have committed millions to research projects that will hopefully explain the complex array of symptoms characteristic of long COVID and provide effective therapies and care to support recovery. Yet long COVID has also made clear the dearth of research, funding, and therapies for post-viral conditions and mobilised a movement to rectify it.
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) has been described as a mass disabling event. Many people around the world have lost their jobs, homes, health, and social lives to a virus that sits in the nerves, tissues, blood, brain, and gut. Although rapid medical innovation for diagnostic tests, treatments, and effective vaccines for COVID-19 was largely efficient and effective, there are no verifiable tests for long COVID or a silver-bullet therapy to treat it. Even so, governments have committed millions to research projects that will hopefully explain the complex array of symptoms characteristic of long COVID and provide effective therapies and care to support recovery. Yet long COVID has also made clear the dearth of research, funding, and therapies for post-viral conditions and mobilised a movement to rectify it.