Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features WCRI’s announcement of a upcoming free webinar that will cover Brown University School of Public Health’s Long COVID Initiative, presented by Dr. Francesca L. Beaudoin, interim chair and associate professor of epidemiology.
WCRI noted that Long COVID can affect people’s ability to work and carry on with regular life, and while it impacts millions of people around the world, it remains poorly understood. To meet the challenges brought on by the emerging syndrome, the Brown University School of Public Health has launched a long COVID-19 initiative that will bring together researchers, clinicians, and experts in policy as well as strategic communications, to rapidly study and communicate the significant impact of long COVID-19 on people, communities, workplaces, health care, and society as a whole. Key areas of discussion will include proportions of those who contract COVID-19 will develop long-term symptoms, treatments, social and economic impacts, employers’ support role, knowledge/research gaps, and status of the NIH’s research on long-term effects.