The effects of long Covid could turn out to be a bigger public health problem than excess deaths, an academic has warned. Those suffering with so-called long Covid have reported breathlessness, chronic fatigue and brain fog - months after initially falling ill with the virus.
Professor Tim Spector at King's College London revealed that in many people, coronavirus behaved more like an autoimmune disease, affecting multiple systems in the body.
Mirror Online has interviewed multiple people who say they're suffering the effects - with one saying she's had awful coronavirus symptoms for six months.
Stephanie, 33, from London, began feeling symptoms in March but she still has had no sense of taste and smell, she suffers brain fog and chronic
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