Coronavirus: Long Haulers in UK Medical Staff

As times goes by, we'll be getting more research information about the impact to long-term health after one has recovered from COVID-19. Some of the blog posts I've done have involved rather small sample sizes such as just 100 patients. This Guardian (Apr 3) article is looking at 122,000 health services workers suffering from long hauler symptoms:

At least 122,000 NHS personnel have the condition, the Office for National Statistics disclosed in a detailed report that showed 1.1 million people in the UK were affected by the condition. That is more than any other occupational group and ahead of teachers, of whom 114,000 have it.

. . . “It is particularly worrying that in the latest ONS data healthcare workers self-reported the highest rates of long Covid among all professions, with nearly 4% – accounting for about 122,000 of the estimated 1.094 million people in the UK reporting ongoing symptoms.”

The article goes on to state that this is impacting the ability of NHS to provide care to patients. It appears that the main symptoms are "fatigue, pain and breathlessness." I would think that this might be driven by lung damage? 

The posts I've done with smaller sample sizes provide better insight into what sort of health impacts people are suffering from, but I think this Office for National Statistics provides information on the breath of the problem. 

Now these are self-reported and I have to suspect that there are some estimates getting thrown around here. But per Worldometer, there were 4.357 million cases of COVID-19 in the UK. That would indicate that 25% of Brits are experiencing long haul symptoms. If this is applied to the United States, we're north of 8 million long haulers. 

Hopefully, symptoms eventually go away.