With long COVID becoming recognised as a significant consequence of COVID infection, it is evident we will need to stay ahead of prevention and treatment of the new variants of this virus.

So said infective diseases specialist and paediatrician, Professor Robert Booy in a recent Healthed ‘Going Viral’ podcast. He referred to research published in the journal Nature that showed that COVID infection could actually shrink the brain with a study finding that people with ongoing symptoms had a 1% loss of brain volume which affected neurological functions such as memory, mood and smell.