Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long COVID – where is the government plan?
- Written by John Donne Potter, Professor of Public Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Getty ImagesA high prevalence of long COVID is perhaps the starkest reminder that the pandemic is far from over.
The latest New Zealand Health Survey confirms the impacts of the COVID pandemic continue, six years after the initial outbreak. The data show most New Zealanders (77.7% or about 3.3 million people) have had COVID at least once.
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