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‘Significant’ number of doctors still suffering with ‘debilitating effects’ of long Covid, study warns
The entrance to one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside. Picture date: 20/10/20

SIGNIFICANT numbers of doctors are still suffering with the debilitating effects of long Covid, a worrying new report has warned.

Many are in financial limbo after being forced to quit work or reduce their hours, the study from doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) stressed. 

The ambiguous response to the poorly understood condition is “contributing to the loss of UK health service staff at a time when we can least afford it,” the authors said — a reference to record numbers of NHS vacancies following years of Tory austerity. 

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