I was surprised to see that your article (The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost, 5 March) speaks of those who suffered during the pandemic in the past tense, and does not mention the hundreds of thousands, like myself, who still suffer from long Covid. It is a devastating condition that is too often forgotten when the pandemic is discussed. Meanwhile, long Covid clinics are underfunded and many have closed. To many, the pandemic must feel like a nightmare that is thankfully in the past. For me, it never ended.
Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink
London
• I remember two pieces of advice from my mother (My mother’s best advice: learn to raise one eyebrow at the world, 11 March). Always air your underwear. And never marry a clergyman – she had and I did! I still keep to the first and have never regretted ignoring the second – 60th anniversary this year.
Felicity Randall
Fakenham, Norfolk
• Re one’s choice of newspaper affecting employment success (Letters, 9 March), when applying for midwifery training in the 1970s, we were advised to subtly display the Daily Telegraph in our bags at the interview if we wanted to train at a prestigious London hospital. I chose the Royal Berkshire hospital.
Melanie Hewitt
London
• William Christou (6 March) describes the southern suburbs of Beirut as “an area the size of lower Manhattan”. Is this an addition to the standard list of measurements (Letters, 6 March)?
Mike Schilling
Didsbury, Manchester
• I can manage most journalistic sizes, from a 35mm canister to Wales, but “the size of a scuba diving tank” is sadly beyond my range (Report, 10 March).
Revd Philip Welsh
London
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