Caring for the carers: understanding long covid in our diverse healthcare workforce

In the United Kingdom (UK), there have been over 21.4 million confirmed cases of covid-19 as of April 2022.1 Evidence has emerged that some patients are experiencing long termsymptomsand complications that extend beyond the acute infection phase, which is now widely known as long covid.2 3 According to the most recent UK Government’s Office for National Statistics data (April 2021), approximately 1.7 million individuals in theUK reported experiencing covid-19 symptoms for longer than four weeks.4 Of these, 690% had covid-19 for the first time at least 12 weeks previously, and45%had covid-19 at least a year ago.4