Life with long Covid: 'I’m not the person I was'

According to a leading respiratory consultant, many healthcare workers who contracted coronavirus in the first phase of the pandemic have developed persistent and debilitating side effects. Three nurses whose lives have been devastated by long Covid talk about their slow road to recovery 

Louise O'Reilly, Kilcullen, Co Kildare who suffers from long Covid. Picture: Moya Nolan

This week US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci declared long Covid an “insidious” public health emergency for millions of people.

Just days earlier World Health Organisation (WHO) head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that long Covid is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people.