Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert
Dr. John Lambert:
I agree with the Chairman. One cannot do a PET scan on everybody with long Covid but if a well researched list of symptoms, such as contact with Covid, symptoms following the onset of Covid and a list of various symptoms, was established, that would be of benefit. It would be useful to have a definition. Some people call it long-haul Covid. Some places say that if a patient has had if for more than one month, it is long Covid. The standard is that if it persists for more than three months, it is long Covid.
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