Paul Garner: on his recovery from long covid
We need to listen to communities of people who have recovered from illness, says Paul Garner I loved my job, had good friends, and felt as high as a […]
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Paul Garner on long haul covid-19—Don’t try to dominate this virus, accommodate it
“Has covid-19 gone?” My first thought every morning for six months. A few weeks ago, I was jubilant. The muscle aches had evaporated, my head was clear. I announced this […]
Minna Johansson: Caring for patients with long covid—a compassionate tightrope
What do our reactions to long covid reveal about medicine’s uncomfortable relationship with uncertainty? Minna Johansson reflects […]
Long covid and self-help pacing groups—getting by with a little help from our friends
Paul Garner and colleagues describe how a self-help pacing group has helped them manage their long covid […]
Covid-19: Prolonged and relapsing course of illness has implications for returning workers
Covid-19 is a new illness on a scale not seen in living memory. Every article and webcast about covid-19 has the same message: “We are still learning; we don’t know […]
Paul Garner: Covid-19 at 14 weeks—phantom speed cameras, unknown limits, and harsh penalties
“If my husband had said he was still sick with covid-19 after a month, I’d say he was milking it.” Straight talking from a Liverpudlian woman on one of my […]
Paul Garner: Covid-19 and fatigue—a game of snakes and ladders
It’s over, I thought! It was the beginning of May, after the weirdest seven weeks of illness I had ever had, a roller coaster of exhaustion, pain everywhere, tinnitus, headaches, […]
Covid-19: How can we safely exit lockdown?
Loosening the lockdown too much now will not do our health, the economy, or people’s livelihoods any good, argue KK Cheng and Wenjie Gong […]
Paul Garner: For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion
Paul Garner, professor of infectious diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discusses his experience of having covid-19 […]