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  • Long Covid in Aotearoa NZ: Risk assessment and preventive action urgently needed

    … Summary Covid-19 can cause longer-term changes in health, collectively known as Long Covid. With only four years of follow-up time to observe … evolving new virus we cannot yet see the full picture of Long Covid, but its impacts are already substantial and …
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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … Summary Short-term thinking dominates policymaking in Aotearoa NZ. This … Briefing highlights the problem and the need to strengthen long-term thinking. Short-term thinking leads to the neglect of multiple public health problems particularly long-term disease prevention and mounting environmental …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Covid-19 pandemic is causing both acute illness and longer-term debilitating symptoms: Long Covid. Long Covid also reduces worker productivity resulting in …
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  • Long COVID: Century-old Lessons We Still Have Not Learned

    … This long-read blog updates what is known about long COVID – now informed by some very large studies and a … ( Giardia lamblia ) 6 . What is different about the long-term consequences of infection with SARS-CoV-2 is the sheer …
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  • Long COVID: a crucial reason for vax, mask, and distance

    … Long COVID occurs in at least 20-30% of individuals who have … that vaccination is wholly or partly protective against long COVID, whether vaccination occurs before or after … damage to these organs will result in the largest long-term burden. Multi-organ Impacts Ayoubkhani et al. undertook …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … This blog post updates an earlier post on Long-COVID and reports that estimates of prevalence are still … and manage the massive burden of the disease that is Long-COVID. An elimination strategy that includes, but is not … 13-15 . Fourthly, understanding the nature of the long-term consequences of infection with SARS-CoV-2 is made …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Summary Long COVID is emerging as a global public health concern. … high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an elevated risk of Long COVID. This article describes an innovative … locations to provide specialist care to people having long term symptoms 6 . This has not happened in Aotearoa New …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … surveys the emerging scientific evidence on the longer-term burden of symptoms and disease in survivors of the … symptoms point to damage in the brain and heart. These long-term harms add to the wide range of other reasons for … an order of magnitude more lethal 1 . More crucially, the long-term consequences of infection with SARS-CoV-2 are …
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  • Current and future generations must flourish: Time for a long-term and global perspective on pandemic and other catastrophic risks

    … on global risks including pandemics. The newly mandated Long-term Insights Briefings (LTIB) that Aotearoa NZ public sector … ‘ Our Common Agenda ’. The report employed the language of long-termism, portrayed wide-ranging concern for future …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks

    … about policies to strengthen the country's resilience to long - term global risks and their intention to introduce a Global … to climate change and stated it would “take the same long-term approach to other environmental disasters, …
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