Long Covid takes its toll on academia

Impact of condition on academics poses several difficult challenges for higher education institutions

Published on
July 14, 2022
Last updated
August 2, 2022
Tom Williams
Asian man wearing a mask has a headache and has difficulty breathing after contracting Covid-19 even after undergoing treatment. to illustrate long Covid
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Reader's comments (4)

#1 Submitted by m.o.... on July 14, 2022 - 4:14pm
Almost everyone I know in my department (over 60 people) have caught COVID once, some twice, and yet we are powering on as usual. Shame.
#2 Submitted by en270_cam_ac_uk on July 16, 2022 - 9:18pm
Almost everyone I know eats nuts without swelling up and going into anaphylactic shock some of us eat nuts on a regular basis and yet we just power through as usual and don’t die, shame on them and their unusual immune systems?
#3 Submitted by en270_cam_ac_uk on July 16, 2022 - 9:22pm
Some people get covid and die - why is it so difficult to believe that some people get covid and have long term effects.
#4 Submitted by d.j.... on July 14, 2022 - 4:38pm
I contracted Covid in March 2020, and have been dealing with Long Covid ever since. My university colleagues were mostly understanding and supportive. But it's fundamentally difficult to balance the demands of an academic job (given its habitual overworking and its tightly timetabled structure) with the debilitating effects of Long Covid. A cure is not yet in sight. And in 2021, I felt there was no alternative but to take Voluntary Severance and early retirement at the age of 59. Given what's happened to the USS pension, the financial effects have been hard.

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