Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long COVID – where is the government plan?
Amanda Kvalsvig; John Donne Potter
A high prevalence of long COVID is perhaps the starkest reminder that the pandemic is far from over.
The latest New Zealand Health Survey confirms the impacts of the COVID pandemic continue, six years after the initial outbreak. The data show most New Zealanders (77.7% or about 3.3 million people) have had COVID at least once.
Many people reported changes in health after COVID, but about one in 11 adults (401,000 people) described symptoms lasting three months or longer. These were health...