Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion

Dr. Brian Kent:

The condition encompasses a myriad of symptoms. Different people will experience very different ones. The Deputy mentioned the neurological aspect. Some people coming into our clinic have many neurological symptoms and others have none. Defining long Covid as a single disease entity is challenging because we do not at the moment know why people who have long Covid get that. There are different theories for why that might be, including, for example, persistent viral infection we are not able to detect with conventional tests. There are as many different symptoms as there are people coming to the clinic.

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