Long covid sufferer from Daventry says she's not surprised by enquiry findings
26 year old Jasmine Cleaver says she fears catching it again, having been left with chest pains, and breathing difficulties.
A Daventry woman in her 20s who is living with long covid tells us she wishes more people realise they can still get sick.
26 year old Jasmine Cleaver says she fears catching it again, having been left with chest pains, and breathing difficulties.
Her comments come a week after the second report from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry whose scathing review of the pandemic found 23,000 lives were lost in early 2020 because the government delayed lockdown.
The public enquiry last week found all UK governments response was ‘too little, too late’.
That's something Jasmine, who has been suffering with symptoms for to years, agrees with:
"I think, it was, poor reaction from the government, poor planning it. It's not good to hear, the reports findings but it does make sense. I mean, we we lived through it.
"We saw the government's response to it. So you know, even though it's not good and I'm not happy with it, I'm also not surprised."
Jasmine's long covid symptoms started after her second bout of Covid two years ago aged 24, and she says she's been left with chest pain ever since, heart palpitations and is now being tested for POTS, a nervous system condition which can causes extreme dizziness.
"When I got tested from lying down to standing up, they measure your heart rate and they said that a healthy person from lying down to standing up, their heart rate should increase about 15 to 20 beats.
"They consider somebody with pots increased by 40 beats and apparently mine increased by 50."
Jasmine and others have been support by the Post Covid/Viral Rehabilitation Service, but this is now being decommissioned.
The prime minister says he's 'carefully' considering the recommendations from the Covid inquiry's scathing review of government decision making during the pandemic.
The Covid-19 inquiry is now hearing from people who struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic as it turns to examining the economic impact of the lockdowns and the success of the government's support schemes.
The Treasury has estimated that total spending by the government across all its support measures amounted to £373 billion.
Meanwhile experts from The University of Manchester are warning that school attendance across England still hasn’t recovered for many children since the pandemic - and the gap between rich and poor pupils is growing.