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

    … 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 … sectors, and societies. Evidence consistently shows that Long Covid is common, affects all ages, and frequently …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … both acute illness and longer-term debilitating symptoms: Long Covid. Long Covid also reduces worker productivity resulting in economic harm. A recent analysis suggests that Long Covid is likely costing the Australian economy …
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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 meta-analysis. The two most concerning aspects of long COVID are its high prevalence (up to 30% of those …
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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 … wanting to minimise the health and cost burden of managing long COVID would therefore choose to maximise vaccination …
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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 … approach used for Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey of key stakeholders found …
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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 … SARS-CoV-2 but is also key to minimising the damage that Long-COVID is otherwise certain to create for individuals, …
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  • The need for long-term thinking – Especially for preventing catastrophic risks

    … 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 … there is a wide range of feasible options to build long-term thinking into the government system and to …
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  • Media release: Long Covid could be costing NZ $2 billion a year in lost productivity: Experts urge preventive action

    … Long Covid could be costing the economy of Aotearoa New … Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre –  Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive … local and international evidence about the impacts of Long Covid on productivity.  University of Auckland health …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … 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 … a society, not a collection of isolated individuals. Long-COVID Some are beginning to call it “long-COVID” 2 and …
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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 … ‘ Our Common Agenda ’. The report employed the language of long-termism, portrayed wide-ranging concern for future … for the next five years. The report acknowledges long-term challenges, including existential risks, that are …
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