"Global Health" for people with "long-term corona": hold on to hope

The World Health Organization has called on those infected with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) and who continue to have symptoms for several months without knowing the causes, to maintain hope.

Janet Diaz, the official in charge of the team in charge of searching for a cure for this phenomenon, told Agence France-Presse that "long-term Covid" requires a similar amount of urgent attention by the scientific community, and she explained that there are some studies that have begun to clear a little ambiguity about this phenomenon, but no It is known so far why some people with Covid-19 suffer over a period of months, sometimes severe symptoms, including fatigue, difficulty breathing, impaired nervous system and heart complications.

Janet Diaz explained that "long-term Covid" is a disease that requires a better description, and we need to know the number of people infected with it and understand its cause so that we can improve its prevention, treatment and means of treatment. "

Janet Diaz explained that "long-term Covid" is detected in patients who have been infected to varying degrees by the epidemic, and this also includes younger people, including children, noting that the most common symptom is apparently fatigue, but there are many other symptoms, including fatigue or Having a malaise after exercising physically, difficulty thinking clearly, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and nervous system problems.

"What we don't understand is how all of these things are interconnected," she said.

Why does one person have this symptom, and another person have another symptom? '

Noting that it is imperative that researchers uncover the disease mechanisms that cause these symptoms.

"Is this caused by the virus?" She asked.

Or about the immune response?

If we know more, we will be able to start by identifying some interventions to alleviate the symptoms, ”affirming that a“ huge amount ”of research is currently being conducted on the phenomenon.

She indicated that what gave impetus to this research were the patients themselves who had gathered to demand their right to receive answers and treatment, in the face of doubts and ambiguities about their health status.

The organization will hold a symposium next week, the first in a series of scheduled seminars, and Diaz said: "We probably now have enough data on the long-term Covid to start painting an overall picture."

Besides developing a precise identification and name for long-term COVID-19, the symposium will allow consensus around criteria for collecting data from patient monitoring to beginning to find treatments.

The symposium will also be attended by donors, given the need to find funding quickly.

And Diaz sent a message to people with long-term Covid and sometimes feel neglected, and she said: "Keep hope."

"People sometimes have symptoms for a very long time, but we know they are cured," she added.

It may take a lot of time, but they will be cured. "We are by your side," she affirmed.

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