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NHS COVID-19 app's first weekend: With fundamental testing flaw ironed out, bugs remaining are relatively trivial

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Re: Still confused as to how this app makes the slighest bit of difference..

We also need to consider 'long Covid', the long term effects of Covid-19 infections. Adam Rutherford did an item on BC Radio 4 this morning:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mzms

Lots of people who had milder symptoms now experience breathlessness and other long term issues. This will be a major problem in countries with higher infection rates, like Brazil, India and particularly the USA in the future. At the moment the UK is counting deaths within 28 days of diagnosis and positive test for Covid-19, we need to plan for the much larger number of survivors who will have long term, maybe permanent, problems of various degrees of severity.

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