evidence: The study found long COVID is a syndrome "indistinguishable from seasonal influenza and other respiratory illnesses, with no evidence of increased moderate-to-severe functional limitations a year after infection", the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) said. [...] Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said the amount of attention on long COVID symptoms was simply down to the high level of the virus throughout the community. [...] "So the authors' assertion that long COVID is the same as flu-related post-viral syndrome is not proven, even if long COVID is indeed a post-viral syndrome (which it is).