Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When we first started seeing Covid before it arrived on our shores, we were watching with horror at night-time footage of Bergamo hospital that showed young people lying on corridor floors, gulping for air. I think the first real insight we had behind the scenes in Ireland was an “RTÉ Investigates” special that went in behind the hospital scenes in Ireland and we could see the huge strain and stress on the front-line healthcare professionals. That gulping for air image will haunt many of us for a long time. Is that still a feature of the new variants? Is long Covid less often an outcome of these new variants? Are those we would classify as having long Covid mostly from the first iterations from the virus?