A brand new app goals to assist the tens of millions of individuals residing with lengthy covid

Seen is only one of a spread of tasks designed to assist individuals with lengthy covid. Researchers from College School London have just lately created an app known as Lungy, which is designed to assist customers with lengthy covid, bronchial asthma, or power obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD) do respiration workout routines. One other app, from the UK’s Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, has been developed to assist sufferers log their progress in order that clinicians can alter their therapy accordingly.

Behind the numbers, there is a gigantic quantity of particular person ache, distress, and frustration relating to medical ignorance in regards to the situation, says Mike Clarke, a 44-year-old medical copywriter in Bristol, UK, who has been residing with lengthy covid since October 2020. He has to spend hours each day mendacity down as a result of even simply sitting up places pressure on his coronary heart.

“I had a few significantly unhealthy well being days, and my rating [on the app] the following day was appropriately low. It could not appear to be a lot, however after two years of docs telling me all medical checks confirmed that every thing in my physique was tremendous, I’ve felt extra validated by the info from Seen in per week and half of use,” he says.

“After two years with completely no progress, most individuals like me with lengthy covid are determined for somebody or one thing—something—to supply hope. To me, the Seen app supplies me little glimpses of that.”