On 11 March 2020, Becky Steed from Nottingham was working as GP in the NHS.
That was the day the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
Becky continued her work on the frontline, until she contracted the virus. Her life has never been the same since.
“I’ve been to some really dark places these last few years, really dark places,” Becky told ITV News.
There is no cure for long Covid, but now groundbreaking research is offering fresh hope.
Becky is one of 70 people taking part in a study at the University of Derby.
ITV News was given exclusive access to to film the research, the first of it’s kind in the UK.
She is one of around two million people in the UK living with long Covid.
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