‘Some doctors swear blind it does not exist’: Why this leading specialist is still focused on long COVID
Professor Anthony Byrne says the difficulty with long COVID is the phenotypes can fall into various specialties.
Associate Professor Anthony Byrne gets that some doctors are sick of COVID-19 and its sequelae.
“People probably have a bit of PTSD about it,” he says.
“It changed so many facets of everyone’s life that lots of people want to put that behind them, in the community, the media and, to some degree, medically.
“But it was also an amazing opportunity to learn about a new illness and discover, in real time, how to investigate and manage it.”
