Doctors suffered trauma and PTSD during and after first Covid-19 wave

Survey results, as yet not yet-peer-reviewed, put the prevalence of psychological distress at 44.7% of respondents in the build-up to the first wave's peak, 36.9% at the peak and 31.5% as it declined.

A "significant" proportion of frontline doctors face "ongoing distress" after working in the high pressure conditions of the pandemic's first wave, new research suggests.

A study based on responses from more than 5,400 frontline doctors in Ireland and the UK found nearly half (45%) reported psychological distress as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated to its initial peak in 2020.