In an unassuming building behind Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, some extraordinary research is happening, offering fresh hope for those suffering ongoing symptoms from COVID-19.
It's just a bunch of rooms on either side of two hallways buried out the back of the outpatients area of St Vincent's. It opened in March."I just want my old life back and I don't know when I'm going to get that back," says 60-year-old Karen Henry.
"Karen's a complex patient, but that's not uncommon for the sort of patients that we see in the clinic," says Dr Byrne."We've been treating patients for a while, but this is very much a learning experience for us as well to know what works and what doesn't." "Some doctors do not believe in long COVID, so they find it very hard to get the referral from their own GP. So they have to change their GP to get the referral.""Sometimes if you're not the person with the symptom, it can be easy to brush it off as ‘Well, you know, just get over it,'" he says.
"It's a really inflammatory virus … It causes systemic inflammation. That inflammation is in blood vessels. They affect the liver, the heart, the kidneys, the brain. They just go around the body everywhere, because the blood obviously goes everywhere within the body." That's the response from one the United States's leading long COVID researchers, Ziyad Al-Aly, to the question of whether it exists.
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