Warwickshire GP says patients are still affected by the pandemic five years on
It's been five years since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic
It's been five years since the the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.
Five years on, many people continue to feel the effects of the pandemic through cases of Long Covid.
A Warwickshire GP has been telling us that one in ten cases result in Long Covid, causing patients to feel constantly fatigued for three months or longer.
Dr James Gill is a Clinical Professor at Warwick University, he's been telling us more on the impcat Long Covid continues to have on patients.
Dr Gill said: "To put in perspective, ten percent of Covid-19 infections can become Long Covid.
"The main reason why long Covid affects people so much is the impact it has on your life. 50% of people that get long COVID have a chronic fatigue and life is just made that little bit more difficult.
"It's an invisible disease which makes it particularly difficult when you're dealing with employers as you may be having to work extra hard just to get through your day.
"Because there's no visible aspect of it, it's much harder for people to be appropriately looked after by their employers of from a medical perspective."
Dr Gill continued to say how the pandemic has changed day to day medical practices, he believes some changes have increased efficiency.
Dr Gill says: "If anything, Covid-19 highlighted the bravery of health care professionals, continuing to put hands on potentially infected patients with that aim of giving them help.
“The pandemic helped to refine some of our healthcare services, identifying patients who can safely be cared for remotely. But it also highlighted the need for clinical skills, those diagnostic skills that work, when the power is out, when the computers are down, or when it seems like the world is coming to the end! Clinical skills ARE medicine, and the pandemic drove that fact home”
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