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Long Covid: Sheffield woman housebound for a year

Fran Haddock, 33, has severe chronic fatigue syndrome and can no longer work as a veterinary surgeon. ....

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There is an overlap between long covid and ME/CFS

Thank you for highlighting the devastation long covid has wrought on healthcare workers’ lives, including my own.1 I would go further than the BMA and suggest that long covid be considered an occupational disease for anyone in the UK exposed at work.

It is important to point out the overlap between long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), as highlighted in a recent … ....

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We need better care for long covid and ME/CFS

As a patient with severe long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), I was pleased to see Dean’s article about a long covid clinic.1 I went from working on-call as a consultant to being unable to stand or feed myself with long covid. I remain severely affected a year later and now face losing my job. Altmann and colleagues estimate that one in 10 people … ....

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Long covid: the doctors' lives destroyed by an illness they caught while doing their jobs

Unable to work or to play with their children, forced to sell their homes or facing insolvency doctors with long covid deserve more support from the government and the NHS, writes Adele Waters

When Kelly Fearnley first stepped on to a surgical ward as a doctor at Bradford Royal Infirmary in August 2020 her head was still buzzing with delight at having finally achieved her dream of qualifying in medicine.

As a mature student she had financed herself through a medical degree by working shifts as a pharmacy assistant. Now, aged 34, she was ready to get stuck into her foundation training.

Early months were spent dealing with emergency surgical patients but by autumn, as the second wave of covid-19 struck, the hospital opened several covid wards and she was deployed to work on one of them.

She remembers: “I walked onto the ward full of covid patients to find only plastic pinnies and flimsy blue surgical masks. I’d expected long sleeved surgical gowns and FFP ....

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