Doctors demand better co-ordination to solve Long Covid problems

Calls are growing for Switzerland to keep better track of people suffering from Long Covid to gain an understanding of the symptoms and the overall impact on society. Criticism centres on the fact that there is no central database to record the number and severity of Long Covid cases – a device that could improve understanding of the new medical condition. “Long Covid could turn out to be another major health policy problem,” neuroscientist Dominique de Quervain told the SonntagsBlick newspaper on Sunday. While some people recover completely after catching Covid-19, others suffer from continuous side-effects, such as energy loss, shortness of breath and memory lapses. Understanding of Long Covid is limited to individual studies, one of which in Switzerland found that 39% of infected people in the study had long-term effects months after contracting the virus. It has also been found that women are more likely to suffer from long Covid than men, but it is not known why. The...