Useful resources

Below is a list of some useful Long Covid resources – where possible a hyperlink is provided.

This page is being added to all the time – please feel free to suggest information that might be useful.

What is Long Covid?

Find out more about by watching Long Covid Physio’s series of Long COVID Videos

Long Covid Physio also have a range of information about Long Covid. It can be accessed here.

World Health Organization information about Long Covid is accessible here.

Long Covid and employment

Workers’ experience of Long Covid: Joint report by the TUC and Long Covid Support (March 2023)

Three-quarters with long Covid have stopped, reduced or changed work

3 in 4 long Covid sufferers forced to stop, change or reduce their work

UNISON (2022) Staff with long Covid will feel forced out of the health service if managers don’t treat them fairly, warns UNISON

Lunt, J., Hemming, S., Burton, K., Elander, J. and Baraniak, A. (2022) What workers can tell us about post-COVID workability. Occupational Medicine. Online early.

Lunt J, Hemming S, Elander J, Baraniak A, Burton K, Ellington D. (2022) Experiences of workers with post-COVID-19 symptoms can signpost suitable workplace accommodations. International Journal of Workplace Health Management. 15(3): 359–74.

More information about Long Covid and work can be found on the Long Covid Work website.

Long Covid as a disability

Conceptualising the Episodic Nature of Disability among Adults Living with Long COVID: A Qualitative Study (November 2022)

Nursing Times paper about disability in the health service including Long Covid – it’s behind a paywall but you should be able to sign up for several free articles a month.

For more information click here

Long Covid as an occupational disease

TUC: Covid-19 as an Occupational Disease – August 2022

Covid- 19 and occupational impacts – an independent report. Paper presented to Parliament (November 2022)

Infection Prevention and Control of Covid-19: Transmission routes

How covid-19 spreads: narratives, counter narratives, and social dramas. This paper by Trish Greenhalgh and colleagues can be accessed here.

How masks work is discussed in this Twitter thread – click here to read it.

Chances of developing Long Covid increase with each Covid-19 infection

Press release from the University of Washington School of Medicine in St Louis in November 2022 highlights that repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure and death.

Nature (November 2022) Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection

Nature (May 2022) Long COVID after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection