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

    … Summary Covid-19 can cause longer-term changes in health, collectively known as Long Covid. With only four years of follow-up time to observe this … new virus we cannot yet see the full picture of Long Covid, but its impacts are already substantial and measurable …
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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 been … vaccination is wholly or partly protective against long COVID, whether vaccination occurs before or after COVID-19. A society wanting to minimise the health and cost …
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  • Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts

    … Summary The persisting Covid-19 pandemic is causing both acute illness and longer-term debilitating symptoms: Long Covid. Long Covid also reduces worker productivity resulting in economic …
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  • Covid-19 is finishing the year on a high: We need a vigorous coordinated response

    … Summary Covid-19 is causing a large fifth pandemic wave in … There will also be thousands of people disabled from long Covid during 2023. Drivers of these large waves of infection … measures. This pattern of recurring large waves of Covid-19 infection is a wake-up call for the NZ Government …
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  • Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them?

    … Summary The Covid-19 pandemic is continuing in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) … evidence shows that even during the Omicron era, Covid-19 vaccines continue to provide protection against infection, hospitalisation, death, and Long Covid, as well as improving outcomes during pregnancy. NZ …
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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 wide … and manage the massive burden of the disease that is Long-COVID. An elimination strategy that includes, but is not … but is also key to minimising the damage that Long-COVID is otherwise certain to create for individuals, whanau, …
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  • The Covid-19 experience in Aotearoa New Zealand and other comparable high-income jurisdictions and implications for managing the next pandemic phase

    … In this blog we briefly explore the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in several high-income Asia-Pacific … to reduce the immediate and long-term impacts from Covid-19. Covid-19 has become one of the leading causes of death in …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … Summary Long COVID is emerging as a global public health concern. Health … care workers have a relatively high level of exposure to COVID-19 and an elevated risk of Long COVID. This article describes an innovative multidisciplinary …
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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 infected) … to the lowest cumulative mortality in the OECD for the COVID pandemic). During the 1918-19 pandemic, the United …
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  • Five actions to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a focus on Auckland

    … Regardless of whether Auckland returns to Covid-19 elimination or transitions to a suppression … pandemic control measures, including: (1) Enhancing Covid-19 control in groups who experience deprivation and … system to provide more nuanced options for controlling Covid-19; (5) Strengthening regional boundaries to limit …
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