Inside a long Covid clinic: 'I want to play with my kids again'

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Croydon University Hospital's clinic has already seen 1,000 patients, with another 500 on the waiting list.

Zaz is one of more than 1,000 patients seen by the long Covid clinic in Croydon. Another 500 are on the waiting list for diagnosis and possible referral to a specialist team for physiotherapy or a heart or lung scan.

"Then, there are those who were never tested in the first wave, who thought they would get better at home but then started to develop a whole host of strange symptoms."but it can include a broad range of health problems.As with any new medical condition, hard evidence about the prevalence of long Covid is difficult to come by.found about one in five people infected still had symptoms five weeks later, with one in seven still sick in some way after 12 weeks.

And in some cases, patients are referred on to specialists in cardiology, neurology and respiratory care.

 

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