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**Hugh** · 04-01-2021, 21:20

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....impact-3079917

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National data suggests between two to five per cent of Covid-19 patients will go on to develop ‘long Covid’ - suffering symptoms beyond 12 weeks - leading to an estimated 980 people in Leeds from the first wave alone.

The city’s specialist ‘Covid After-Care team’ began work in September, just days after being set up, in a fast-moving bid to reach those in need in Leeds - and what they have uncovered so far has been startling.

From the first 188 patients referred in, they have found the average age was 48, with more women than men, none had originally been hospitalised and many were previously extremely fit including personal trainers and athletes now struggling for breath at rest.

The findings have overturned initial expectations that those most affected would be those who had suffered more severely initially - such as the ‘at-risk’ older age groups - and that symptoms would be mainly respiratory.

Dr Bryan Power, a GP and clinical lead for long term conditions at NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group, who helped set up the team, said: “It’s not the cohort we expected to see.

“They are of a younger age than we expected - including a 17-year-old - and also presenting with a complex range of symptoms. Some patients haven’t been able to work for six months.”

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Originally Posted by Carth

Gotta love those graphs/charts

Apparently they show I live in an area where I have 1% chance of testing positive for covid-19, and I'm also in the age group that has a 1% chance of testing positive for covid-19. . . does that mean my chances are now 1% of 1%?

I'd say that calls for (yet) another large Brandy

Treat yourself - have a large Cognac...