Series
Long COVID: The health and economic impacts in Australia
We examine long COVID’s impact on our health, lives and livelihoods.
‘It can’t be ignored’: The illness costing Australia at least $5.7b a year
Jackie Bos can no longer work and is living in her sister’s shed. She is among thousands of Australians whose incomes have vanished as a result of long COVID.
- Matt Wade, Anna Patty and Angus Thomson
Stephenie could not get her legs to move in sync. Turns out it was long COVID
With a federal inquiry report soon due, we examine the impact long COVID is having on Australians’ lives and what its underlying causes might be.
- Liam Mannix and Angus Thomson
Is there a fundamental problem with the definition of long COVID?
Australia’s leading long COVID researchers reveal they no longer view the condition as mysterious, undiagnosable and untreatable.
- Liam Mannix and Angus Thomson
The search for long COVID treatments is already controversial
Madeline Cooper loved her job, running programs for children and young people at a non-profit. Long COVID took it all away from her.
- Liam Mannix and Angus Thomson
He’d finished a PhD. Then long COVID hit and he couldn’t make dinner
From Tom, an academic, to a once-athletic teen, crippled by fatigue – Australians with long COVID are still waiting on answers.
- Fenella Souter
Database and more clinics needed to close a ‘diagnosis and treatment gulf’
A new report estimated between 2 and 20 per cent of people suffer long COVID. But there is no concrete data on how many Australians are affected by it, nor the most effective way to treat it.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Long COVID baffles medical professionals, but Australia is helping solve the mystery
A national COVID-19 database and research into chronic fatigue syndrome could help unravel the mystery of long COVID.
- Angus Dalton
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