Gosh—Over 122,000 🇬🇧 NHS personnel have #LongCovid, out of 1.1 million people in the UK were affected by the condition. What’s the #2 occupational group? 114,000 teachers. Many are unable to work full time because of Long #COVID19 illness & brain fog. 🧵 https://t.co/AHceholA2o pic.twitter.com/bSgCPWCOcX

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021

3) “Ongoing illness can have a devastating impact on individual doctors, both physically and by leaving them unable to work—it puts a huge strain on the health service, which was already vastly understaffed before the pandemic,” said Dr Helena McKeown of British Med Assoc

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021

5) “In the longer term, if more staff face ongoing illness from past Covid-19 infection, the implications for overall workforce numbers will be disastrous.”

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021

7) 20% at 5 weeks and 10% at 12 weeks have #LongCovid symptoms. https://t.co/TaUUSXI71F

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021

8) the crazy thing is that 30% of hospital recovered #COVID19 patients end up back in hospital within 5 months. That’s an insanely high %. And 12% (1 in 8) die of complications after discharge.

It’s a “mammoth” task to tackle #LongCovid. https://t.co/z6CP97qVLJ

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021

Even without obvious organ damage
ME patients have disautonomia and small fiber neuropathy , so yes.

— Joao Paulo, Dr, MD (@JoaoPau29437268) April 5, 2021

Awful to hear that. I agree, as a healthcare worker I feel lucky to have been well protected – I would have been so worried as a teacher.

— Melanie Vale (@Abroad_in_Wales) April 5, 2021