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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/long-covid-hitting-doctors-and-nurses-hard-2025a1000n7q>
"Jeffrey Siegelman, MD, contracted COVID-19 in August 2020 and, 3 months later,
published a paper online in
JAMA about his experiences.
Today, he’s still dealing with the symptoms, as one of many healthcare
providers who have long COVID. He said his experience highlights the impact of
long COVID on hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare
workers, by some estimates, who have been on the frontlines fighting the
pandemic from the beginning.
“I reflect on that paper from
JAMA, and I thought that 3 months was a long
time,” said Siegelman, associate professor of emergency medicine at the Emory
University School of Medicine and a practicing emergency room doctor in
Atlanta. “And here I am, 5 years later, and I still have symptoms. I think
that’s the case for a lot of patients with long COVID, that it just keeps
getting longer.”
Estimating the precise number of US healthcare workers like Siegelman affected
by long COVID is challenging. But 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.
A recent study published in
Frontiers in Public Health, which surveyed 1678
US healthcare workers, found that 7.7% reported experiencing long COVID.
Another study, published in the
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of
Iran in March 2023, involving 445 healthcare workers, reported a prevalence of
9.44%. Outside the US, a systematic review of long COVID’s impact on the
National Health System out of the UK found that 18% of healthcare workers were
out of work due to the condition."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Covid: September 11, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-september-138633520
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
