Here is Dr Andrew Miller’s weekly medical and news commentary during the WAMN News Sunday broadcast.
“Alright, thanks for your time, you can probably tell I’ve been to the doctor this week to have some skin biopsies done one up here and one of my nose as a result of too much sun burn.
“When I was a kid, reminder that not only do we need to protect ourselves in Australia’s harsh sun conditions, but that health problems can evolve over a very long period of time.
“Last week, a study came out of Queensland that was suggesting we should stop calling the long term symptoms from COVID, long COVID because it’s really, according to this survey that was done.
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“Not a lot different to what happens after things like influenza, and other respiratory viruses.
“This is of course, ignoring the fact that the long term damage of COVID is much greater in our population because far more people have suffered from it, and will continue to suffer from it.
“Unfortunately, neither the infection nor the vaccines that we have at the moment can prevent us from getting infected over and over again.
“So it’s still worthwhile doing what you can to avoid catching it so that we don’t get those cumulative health effects that people like Professor Jeremy Nicholson, from Murdoch University, say, are very important and much more likely to occur after this virus than it would with something like influenza or a simple cold.
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“So what do we need to do? Well, we need to keep encouraging our governments to take the problem seriously, and we need to continue to seek out clean air whenever we can.
“In Europe, they bring in indoor clean air regulations so that people have a right to breathe clean air when they’re in public spaces, and also in America and many other countries. They’re vaccinating children.
“I think that that’s something that we should really be pushing hard for in our country because now we’re no longer able to access the vaccine for our for our children.
“Whereas in other countries, they can get them from six months of age and up and given that they’re the ones who have the longest term to worry about.
“I think that’s a population that’s worth fighting for. Thanks for your time.”
