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Long Covid Aragón, in union with associations throughout Spain, promotes a challenge through social networks to make the disease visible.
Blowing up a balloon may seem a simple gesture available to anyone. However, for some patients with persistent covid it becomes quite a challenge. "Many of us cannot do it because of the dyspnea we suffer from.", difficulty breathing. Obviously, not everyone suffers from dyspnea, because there are up to 200 symptoms, an average of 36 per person," explains Delphine Crespo, president of Long Covid Aragón.
Precisely, that is the gesture that the persistent covid associations and groups, Long Covid ACTS, promote in a campaign in social media. "What we are looking for is to spread and give visibility to the disease in society to raise awareness of the problem that it will pose in the not too distant future," Long Covid Aragón warns. The latest analyzes Up to 16% of those infected suffer symptoms months after overcoming the disease, of any sex and age.
"Many of us are from the first wave and we have no treatment or research in sight"
Not only that, but with this gesture they also intend to ask for research: "Many of us are from the first wave and we have no treatment or research in sight in the short term in Spain - they recriminate from the group -. Winds of studies in other countries that point to very clear evidence at the vascular, neurological or cardiovascular level.
Long Covid Aragón also claims that there is no information about the people who suffer from it, in exchange for those infected, recovered and deceased. "There is no official record," they say. In addition, they request training for health professionals who can diagnose this disease.
"In other countries, actresses, like Salma Hayek or Gwyneth Paltrow, came out to talk about their experience with the disease, but here no one was heard from," says Crespo. With this initiative they try to make visible what happened with AIDS a few decades ago. "We remember that until celebrities came out to stand as AIDS banners, there was no awareness of the seriousness of the pathology in society," adds the president of the association.
En Spain The first step came from the actor and comedian Alex O'Dogherty. Now, the accordionist Gorka Hermosa, the Aragonese group B Vocal, actors from Oregon TV, presenters from Aragón TV and the cartoonist José Antonio Bernal have already joined – or they have announced that they will.
Long Covid Aragon They appreciate the willingness of artists, athletes, journalists and politicians when it comes to lending themselves to the initiative and inform that if any citizen needs information they can contact covidpersistentearagon@gmail.com, the association's email.
Source: Heraldo de Aragón
