An interesting piece was published in the Morning Star on Long Covid Awareness Day (15/3/25).
The NHS national infection prevention and control guidance across the UK continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’. This is out of line with what the World Health Organization (WHO) state which discuss airborne transmission. The paper concludes that this error is putting vulnerable patients and healthcare workers at unnecessary risks.
The article can be accessed by clicking here.
SHH-UK are working on a position statement relating to the amendments needed to infection prevention and control guidance in the UK. Watch this space!
More than 1 in 10 of 1,496 US healthcare personnel reported the same moderate or severe symptom at both three and six months after COVID-19. Read the findings, limitations and what they may mean for SHH-UK readers.
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A large US study of almost 2,000 children and adolescents found that those meeting the research threshold for probable Long COVID were more likely to experience difficulties with grades, attention and participation with friends.
