Healthcare gaps and inequities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 in Brazil’s universal healthcare system: a patient-engaged survey of Long COVID healthcare needs, use and barriers

The SUS is not meeting the high need for LC healthcare, raising concerns about deepening health inequities. In Brazil, as elsewhere, LC joins other IACCs in becoming an invisibilised epidemic, with LC patients, especially those unable to pay for care, neglected amid general healthcare backlogs. A comprehensive pandemic response must include dedicated efforts to surveil and treat the long-term impacts of infection.