The long road to recovery experienced by some COVID-19 sufferers

It is now clear that for some patients who get through the acute stage of COVID-19, the battle is still far from over. Most will make a full recovery, but for a significant group it is a long and difficult process, with on-going, unpredictable symptoms.

TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: 2020 was going to be a big year for Sydney singer-songwriter, Georgia Mooney.
GEORGIA MOONEY: At the end of February this year I moved over to the UK to make some music in the Northern Hemisphere. It was all very exciting and I had definitely been looking forward to it for a long time.
TRACY BOWDEN: Now she’s back in Sydney recovering from COVID-19 which was diagnosed in late March soon after she returned from London.
GEORGIA MOONEY: If I knew then what I know now about the virus, I would be really scared…
TRACY BOWDEN: A trial at the University of California in San Francisco is studying the clinical consequences of COVID-19 infection.
DR MICHAEL PELUSO, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST: A significant proportion, somewhere probably between 15 per cent and 30 per cent of people who are participating in the study, report at least some symptoms that are lingering, even 30, 60, 90 days after their initial illness…