It’s estimated that 2.1 million people are currently living with long COVID in the UK. Symptoms can include breathlessness, fatigue, chest pains, loss of taste and smell, and “brain fog”. These symptoms continue to develop and fluctuate over time after the initial COVID infection has passed.
Being a fairly new illness, medical understanding of the condition, guidelines and pathways to recovery are developing, changing and often unclear for sufferers. Earlier research has shown that many people with long COVID have faced barriers getting health support, care and recognition of their condition.
