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Here is Dr David Tuller's new blog.
https://www.virology.ws/2020/08/05/trial-by-error-from-uks-national-health-service-your-covid-recovery/?fbclid=IwAR3GGtKks1EksvymcthdUoLobWht6Uu6gVsXQAf6jw0_ObHoNrJwrQLeDPg
Trial By Error: From UK’s National Health Service, “Your COVID Recovery”
https://www.virology.ws/2020/08/05/trial-by-error-from-uks-national-health-service-your-covid-recovery/?fbclid=IwAR3GGtKks1EksvymcthdUoLobWht6Uu6gVsXQAf6jw0_ObHoNrJwrQLeDPg
Trial By Error: From UK’s National Health Service, “Your COVID Recovery”
5 AUGUST 2020
By David Tuller, DrPH
In the UK, the National Health Service has launched a website called “Your COVID Recovery,” part of its strategy for coping with the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This effort is geared toward “supporting your recovery after COVID-19.” In other words, it appears to be targeting the “long-haulers,” as those experiencing lingering symptoms after an acute bout of Covid-19 have been called. These prolonged medical complaints have been given the collective name of “post-Covid syndrome.”
Unfortunately, the site does not mention—unless I missed it, which is always possible–the salient fact that many people currently reporting such symptoms did not obtain a coronavirus test when they were sick because of supply shortages and restrictions on who qualified to get one. Furthermore, the accuracy of the coronavirus tests have varied, depending on the protocol for obtaining a sample, the point during the illness cycle at which it was taken, and other factors. Some patients who have been presumptively diagnosed by clinicians with Covid-19 have tested negative for the virus.
I’m not dissing the entire effort. People are desperate for information. The site does provide caveats about the many unknowns regarding the long-term course of illness and the ultimate prognosis. It provides some helpful resources, including an overview of the range of possible post-Covid symptoms–problems with taste and smell, persistent cough, musculoskeletal pain, and so on. That’s all good.
And much of the advice in Your Covid Recovery is generic, common-sense stuff—stuff that grandma might have suggested.
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