{"id":24891,"date":"2022-08-17T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/08\/17\/the-modern-tragedy-of-long-covid\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:38:45","slug":"the-modern-tragedy-of-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/08\/17\/the-modern-tragedy-of-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"The modern tragedy of long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> News <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> FP Work <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> FP Economy <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\"> Episode 162 of Down to Business Podcast <\/p>\n<figure class=\"featured-image\"><picture class=\"featured-image__ratio\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"featured-image__caption image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">The COVID-19 virus magnified. Surveys have shown that anywhere from 10 to 30 per cent of COVID survivors suffer from Long COVID.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Postmedia<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>From the beginning of this pandemic, people who survived COVID-19 have suffered from an array of symptoms that lingered for months \u2014 from headaches and dizziness to lightheadedness, sleep issues, brain fog and many others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Those lingering effects, which can persist for months, even years, are now called long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Down to Business, Inez Jabalpurwala, global director of VineX, an organization that studies how viruses affect brain health, explains how long COVID is affecting lives, our health-care system, our labour force and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys have shown that anywhere from 10 to 30 per cent of COVID survivors suffer from long COVID, meaning already five per cent of the workforce may be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Part of what makes long COVID hard to diagnose is that it includes a diverse array of both physical and psychological symptoms, and that\u2019s also why, like many chronic illnesses, it often gets ignored as psychosomatic or imagined.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/>The modern tragedy of long COVID<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2022-08-17 11:38:45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links News FP Work FP Economy Episode 162 of Down to Business Podcast The COVID-19 virus magnified. Surveys have shown that anywhere from 10 to 30 per cent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/covid-0817.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/24892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}