About 60% of doctors with long COVID have fatigue when pursuing their daily activities, and only 31% currently have a full-time job.
The elephant in the room of this pandemic is long COVID, and doctors aren't immune to it. A report conducted by the British Medical Association and published inis a worrying read: 60% of doctors with this diagnosis said that they get tired when going about their day-to-day activities. Just under 20% admit to fatigue so debilitating that they can no longer work. Yet, just 31% currently have a full-time job, 46% less than before being diagnosed with the disease.
Doctors, nurses, and obstetricians all seem especially susceptible, perhaps due to having greater exposure to the virus. In the United Kingdom, these healthcare professionals, together with social workers, are seven times more likely than any other professional to have had a serious form of COVID-19. That's why the BMA is calling for even greater protection for those people who, through their job, risk their lives to save others.
Sufferers must, therefore, be offered the chance to access physical and mental health services for a full-body health check and any diagnostic tests and treatments deemed necessary. Yet, almost half of those questioned report having never been referred to a specialist long-COVID clinic.
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