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A clinical trial has been launched to detect currently invisible lung damage in people with long-term Covid, as part of a £ 20million research campaign that scientists say will end the stigma around the disease. disease.
Patients still suffering from shortness of breath will be pulled from long Covid clinics in Sheffield, Manchester and Cardiff to undergo special scans using xenon gas to reveal damage not shown on conventional CT scans, leading to a mystery about the reason why people are not getting better.
The study by Fergus Gleeson, professor of radiology at the University of Oxford, is one of 15 funded by the National Institute for Health Research. to the NHS and to companies whose employees are left too sick to work.