
HUNTER health professionals are coming to grips with the likely impacts of long COVID-19 as more and more people continue to live with symptoms post-acute infection.
Conjoint Professor Peter Wark, a senior staff specialist in respiratory and sleep medicine at John Hunter hospital and medical director for the NSW Health Agency of Clinical Innovation said the properly named 'post acute sequelae of COVID-19' was "very, very real" and was affecting a large proportion of people.