Long COVID'– The Latest Developments

The broad clinical consensus remains that the most effective treatment will be bespoke and targeted towards the patient's individual phenotype.

With data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), showing almost two million people in the UK experiencing self-reported Long COVID symptoms – defined as symptoms continuing for more than four weeks after the first confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection - we examine both the latest medical research and developments in personal injury litigation.

Litigation against hospital trusts

Although many commentators feared that the COVID-19 pandemic would provoke an avalanche of personal injury lawsuits against employers and public bodies, litigation has been sparse with many claimants seemingly deterred by the difficulties in establishing that their condition had arisen due to occupational exposure as opposed to contraction of COVID-19 outside the workplace.