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papa smurf · 23-09-2021, 12:00

Leading expert says issue of long COVID 'slightly overblown'

Some more now from Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, who's been giving his thoughts on the pandemic today.

He said he believed the issue of long COVID "has been slightly overblown", with "proper epidemiological studies" finding the incidence of it is "much lower than people had anticipated".

Sir John told Times Radio he agreed with England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, that the vast majority of children would get infected without a jab.

But he added there are "no bad consequences" in children with COVID and "I don't think there's any reason to panic".

He said: "I don't think we're going to have a lot of children in intensive care units. And in fact, the evidence is we don't, we never have."

The likelihood of severe disease is quite small, he added.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-new...emand-12406800

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papa smurf vox populi vox dei Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: the last resort Services: every thing Posts: 14,681	Re: Coronavirus Leading expert says issue of long COVID 'slightly overblown' Some more now from Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, who's been giving his thoughts on the pandemic today. He said he believed the issue of long COVID "has been slightly overblown", with "proper epidemiological studies" finding the incidence of it is "much lower than people had anticipated". Sir John told Times Radio he agreed with England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, that the vast majority of children would get infected without a jab. But he added there are "no bad consequences" in children with COVID and "I don't think there's any reason to panic". He said: "I don't think we're going to have a lot of children in intensive care units. And in fact, the evidence is we don't, we never have." The likelihood of severe disease is quite small, he added. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-new...emand-12406800 __________________ To be or not to be, woke is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous wokedome, Or to take arms against a sea of wokies. And by opposing end them.