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UT clinicians and local advocates urge Austin to expand long COVID awareness, data and clean-air protections
Summary
A Dell Medical School physician and local advocates told the Mayor's Committee that long COVID affects thousands of Austinites, can be disabling, and recommended expanded public-health communications, clinician-community partnerships, and attention to clean indoor air and data collection.
Physicians and patient advocates briefed the Mayor's Committee for People with Disabilities on March 13 about long COVID’s prevalence, disabling effects and local policy steps the city can take to support affected residents.
Dr. Mike Bridal, medical director of the UT post-COVID clinic at Dell Medical School, summarized clinical uncertainties and findings, saying there is no single diagnostic test and that long COVID typically presents as a disabling cluster of symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog and post-exertional malaise. "We know that about 10 percent of…
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