More than 200,000 people in Britain can count themselves as Covid-19 survivors, but for many the struggle is far from over.
Even those whose cases were not serious enough to warrant hospital treatment, or counted themselves lucky to avoid a spell on a ventilator in a packed intensive care unit, have found themselves struggling with symptoms that can last for months.
Grace Dolman, 39, a specialist liver doctor and one of the cohort of Covid-19 “long haulers”, said: “I feel like I’m sort of stuck somewhere between life and death. It is like having a tank full of petrol and you run out, and there isn’t any more. You can’t go into borrowed energy — there’s nothing more to give.”
Grace Dolman feels “somewhere between life and death”
Dr Dolman had hoped to