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Sydney doctor Sacha Kepreotis has issued an impassioned plea for Australians to get vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers struggle with increasing hospitalisations caused by the Delta variant.

In a viral post, he details the long-term effects of Covid-19, which he says are far more concerning than the “rare and mostly treatable vaccine side-effects”.

“Long term breathing problems, blood clots, myocarditis, disabling fatigue, impaired concentration, memory problems, loss of taste/smell, prolonged hospitalisation, loss of employment and more to be discovered,” he wrote.

Dr Kepreotis said vaccines would be the only way we’d be able to return to “some semblance of normality”.