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Inside the UK’s first long covid clinic: ‘It was life-changing’

By Adam Vaughan

23 June 2021

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Rachel Lommerzheim, an occupational therapist at the UK’s first long covid clinic

David Stock

BEFORE the pandemic, Ellen would usually be found working as a nurse, taking her children to school or riding her horse. Now, as one of the estimated 1.1 million people in the UK living with long covid, she is beset with debilitating headaches, the latest in a string of symptoms she has experienced since developing the condition in March last year.

“It’s been a long, long road,” says Ellen, speaking to 91av during a visit to the UK’s first long covid clinic, at…

Article amended on 24 June 2021

We corrected the job titles of Rachel Lommerzheim and Maddison Rigg

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