Medscape - Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard

[Kalliope]

Quotes:

...several new studies suggest the toll of long COVID has affected healthcare workers in the US more than other Americans who have experienced or are currently living with long COVID.

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David Putrino, PhD, physical therapist and director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mount Sinai Health System, New York City, who has been helping those with long COVID recover, has seen a fair number of healthcare workers.

“I would say 5%-7% of the people who are coming into our center right now are healthcare workers,” he said. His clinic has treated around 3500 people with long COVID and sees 500-700 new patients per year.

“Healthcare workers are probably where we do start to see disproportionate effects of long COVID,” he said.

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“I think that there is a stigma associated with healthcare workers admitting that they have an unmanaged chronic condition,” Putrino said. “So many healthcare workers that I’ve spoken to have said that due to minimizing comments from their colleagues or just a general fear of not being believed, they haven’t accessed care until their symptoms got really out of control.”

Long COVID Hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard

Healthcare workers have been dealing with long COVID symptoms at a higher rate than the general public. The system’s response has been mixed at best.

www.medscape.com

 

[John Mac]

I think that there is a stigma associated with healthcare workers admitting that they have an unmanaged chronic condition

That stigma isn't just associated with healthcare workers.
They may have applied that stigma to patients before they themselves got ill.

 

[BrokenBeaktheBrave]

That stigma isn't just associated with healthcare workers.
They may have applied that stigma to patients before they themselves got ill.

That reminds me. There's quite a few doctors with LC/MECFS on Reddit now and one even apologised recently:



There's also a neuroimmunologist (speciality multiple sclerosis) on the main covid sub and they're adamant that MECFS/LC will eventually be overseen by neuroimmunology. They're also having a lot of symptom relief with IVIG.

 

[Yann04]

That reminds me. There's quite a few doctors with LC/MECFS on Reddit now and one even apologised recently:



There's also a neuroimmunologist (speciality multiple sclerosis) on the main covid sub and they're adamant that MECFS/LC will eventually be overseen by neuroimmunology. They're also having a lot of symptom relief with IVIG.

I hope people can point them over here

 

[BrightCandle]

From NHS staff report where a third said they had Long Covid its hit healthcare workers pretty hard. On the other hand a third of those claim to have a diagnosis of Long Covid, the same can not be said for patients where the U09.9 record seems to be below 50k patients in total.

I think healthcare and teachers are leading the charge in gaining Long Covid symptoms based on the various prevalence papers out there, but they are also better studied than other industries since they are publicly run. Given there is little interest in public prevalence data now its just hard to work out if healthcare workers are worse off or not.