Long COVID epidemics in China in 2023: More data-sharing with WHO?

Given the rapidly spreading COVID-19 epidemic across China involving hundreds of millions of people, there could be tens of millions of people with long COVID in 2023.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has repeatedly emphasized the need to address long COVID, including in his October 2022 piece for The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. that outlined key elements of WHO’s efforts related to the condition.

This suggests a need to expand WHO’s recent interactions with China on acute infections, deaths and variant sequencing results to include long COVID epidemiology, research and evolving treatment protocols.

Doing so will help long COVID research around the world.