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Potential magnitude of long COVID from Omicron “a worry” as experts predict “huge case-load” of people with ongoing symptoms

Thursday 10 March 2022 10:52am

Newshub journalist Rachel Sadler interviews Dr Mona Jeffrey of Victoria University of Wellington and our own Dr Bronwyn Lennox Thompson about the Omicron variant of COVID‑19 and the impact of “long COVID”.

“Given the Government has placed most COVID management into the hands of primary care general practitioners, this means that most people with long COVID will struggle to obtain the rehabilitation they need,” Dr Lennox Thompson says.

Read the news article on the Newshub website

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