Waiting Lists Growing for Long COVID Sufferers in AustraliaMedical experts are pushing governments and authorities to clarify how to define and deal with long COVID in Australia as clinics contend with growing waiting lists for patients suffering from the condition.
“We are seeing different incidence and prevalence compared to international cohorts, but we haven’t had large population-level studies to understand this better in our context,” said infectious disease expert Dr. Irani Thevarajan of the Peter Doherty Institute.
She said Australia’s situation was different from other countries because of its high vaccination rates, which makes it a “distinct population compared to other cohorts and other studies.”
Thevarajan said the Doherty Institute was not overwhelmed yet with patients, but it was dealing with increasing waiting lists....
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