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Boris Johnson asked: ‘Do we really believe in long Covid?’

A long Covid expert said the PM’s scepticism made no sense because ‘the science was already quite compelling’

By Ruby Lott-Lavigna
Boris Johnson asked: ‘Do we really believe in long Covid?’
Long Covid groups protested outside the Covid inquiry on 13 October | Ruby Lott-Lavigna / openDemocracy
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Boris Johnson questioned whether long Covid was real despite it being a “foreseeable” problem.

Speaking at the Covid inquiry on Friday, long Covid experts Chris Brightling and Rachael Evans said for those working in the area of post-viral diseases, it was obvious it could become a “potential problem”.

Brightling, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Leicester, said: “It was foreseeable to us before the pandemic because we were aware of what had happened with SARS-CoV-1 and it was even more apparent early on in the pandemic that this could be a potential problem.”

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