Long COVID plan in the works for Ontario, Moore says
Ontario is expected to make funding decisions for a long COVID strategy in the near future, the province’s top doctor says, as health officials work to create standard definitions and treatment protocols.
“I’ve seen the proposals and I don’t want to pre-empt any ministry announcements, but I think they’re about to make some funding decisions in the near future,” Dr. Moore said in a recent interview.science table called earlier this month for a pro-active and comprehensive strategy to deal with long COVID, which it said is likely to impart a significant burden on the province’s population and its health care system.
“We’re trying to create a standardization of how to define what long COVID is, what would be the major symptoms, whether they’re neurologic, cardiac, or respiratory that we’d like to have treatment protocols for,” he said. “As well, we want to understand what laboratory investigations would be necessary to help with the diagnosis. What other diagnostic imaging would be important? What pulmonary function tests would be important?”Ontario officials are looking at international literature, and Dr. Moore himself said he was just at a conference with the Center for Disease Control. That agency is also trying to define investigation and treatment pathways, he said.
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