From The Saturday Paper, 24 August 2024:
In September 2020, the United Kingdom government commissioned the British Academy – the national academy for the humanities and social sciences – to explore the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
What they got in March 2021 was a report titled “The Covid Decade”. Even then, in the frenzied panic of that first year of a global health crisis, the British Academy foresaw that this acute and early phase would have a very long tail.
One strand of that tail was long Covid, which the report’s authors warned would “complicate the process of declaring an ‘end’ to a pandemic such as this, because for some it will continue”.
“It seemed to be a very sensible thing that everybody should have paid attention to,” says clinical psychologist Andrew Baillie, a professor of allied health at the University of Sydney. Read more (paywall)
Bianca Nogrady 