"Certainly the silent organ damage is a real problem, we think, for future development of disease. When you're young and healthy, you can take a certain amount of damage to the system without it showing up. [...] But as people age, their capacity to buffer against that particular set of damage might decline and we might see increased risk of other symptoms, particularly heart, lung, brain, emerging in people's fifties and sixties."
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Long Covid warning: 'Silent organ damage is a real problem'
Experts are urging the government to protect people from Long Covid, which they say could have already affected a quarter of a million New Zealanders.RNZ News (RNZ)