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Long Covid

August 2024

  • gloved hand holds a vial of blood

    US study shows difficulty of finding lab test for long Covid: ‘The hunt will go on’

    Four-year study of patients finds ‘markedly few’ differences in test results between people who have long Covid and those who do not
  • Woman lying on sofa wearing eye-mask and ear defenders

    What is ME and why is the NHS approach to it being criticised?

    An inquiry into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, has shown up widespread failures in how the illness is treated
  • Maeve Boothby-O’Neill

    Observer letters
    ME: we need more funding and more research

    Letters: people with myalgic encephalomyelitis and their carers are calling for a reversal of decades of underfunding

July 2024

  • Women rests her arms on a window ledge and looks out of the window

    Long Covid health issues persist in those hospitalised early in pandemic, study finds

    Substantial proportion have cognitive and mental health problems years after infection, with some symptoms worsening

June 2024

  • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

    Life with long Covid
    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

    Natacha Gray had an active life, diving, climbing and playing music, before illness left her so tired she would collapse on the way to the couch. She discusses two and a half devastating years – and how she stays optimistic
  • A child under a duvet in pyjamas

    Concern over children with long Covid and theories on its cause

    Letters: Readers respond to an article describing one child’s experience with the virus and how it has affected him and his family

    • Life with long Covid
      Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

    • Emotive insight into impact of long Covid

    • Life with long Covid
      ‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid

April 2024

  • An older woman sitting at a table in her home looking depressed

    About 2m people have long Covid in England and Scotland, figures show

    Many report symptoms lasting two years or longer and about 1.5m say disease affects day-to-day activities

March 2024

  • Sick in bed

    Long Covid may be nothing unique in the future – but its effects today are still very real

    Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
    While the long-term risk from a current infection is 10 times less than it was in 2020-21, a lot of people are still suffering after getting Covid early in the pandemic
  • Illustration show the silhouettes of a group of people under the shadow of the coronavirus

    Young and old: how the Covid pandemic has affected every UK generation

    From children behind on milestones to less active older people, broader effects are being felt four years after the initial outbreak

    • People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid, study suggests

    • ‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms

    • Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ as symptoms no worse than those after flu, Queensland’s chief health officer says

February 2024

  • The study has shown that ‘brain fog’, an extensively reported symptom of long Covid, can be measured.

    ‘Brain fog’ from long Covid has measurable impact, study suggests

  • a woman napping on a sofa in out of focus shot

    Long Covid ‘brain fog’ may be due to leaky blood-brain barrier, study finds

January 2024

  • Derek Draper pictured with his wife, Kate Garraway, in 2019

    Derek Draper: the ‘cocky know-it-all’ who rebuilt his life after scandal

  • Derek Draper.

    Lobbyist turned psychotherapist Derek Draper dies aged 56

December 2023

  • Woman blowing nose in bed

    ‘Long flu’: study finds flu patients at higher risk of longer-term illness

    Like Covid, flu carries significant risk of ongoing disability and disease, researchers say
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