00:00 Long-term symptoms after viruses, viral infections, do occur no matter what that infection is.
00:07 That is something that is well described.
00:10 But it is no more common with COVID-19 than with the respiratory infection.
00:17 If there is a specific long-term complication associated with COVID-19, that complication
00:23 should be identified and described, whether that be something like myocarditis, that's
00:29 an inflammation of the heart muscle, transverse myelitis, inflammation of the spinal cord,
00:34 chronic fatigue syndrome, whatever that long-term effect of the virus should be identified and
00:39 described because we know those complications can occur with any viral infection.
00:45 And they have not been shown in this study to have a higher incidence in patients with
00:50 COVID-19 than with other viral infections.
00:55 I want to make it clear that the symptoms that some patients described after having
01:03 COVID-19 are real.
01:07 And we believe they are real.
01:10 What we are saying is that the incidence of these symptoms is no greater in COVID-19 than
01:16 it is with other respiratory viruses.
01:20 And that to use this term long COVID is misleading and I believe harmful.
01:28 What we have identified is that the long-term symptoms associated with COVID-19 are no different
01:37 to those experienced with other respiratory virus infections whose symptoms are also real.
01:43 But the vast majority of people, the vast majority of people who experience COVID-19
01:49 as with other viral respiratory infections of course recover to complete normal function.
01:55 And that's our experience here in Queensland.
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