I worked for the NHS all my working life, with a break for children, and I did get a (reduced) pension at 56 and worked on a bank basis until 60. My private pension is tiny, and I do not want to put private info on here, but you would be surprised how small it is. This is because wages throughout my working life were relatively low until my last few years of service.
The problems of Covid were exacerbated by the poor state of the NHS which had been starved of cash for years, and social care problems, which had been largely ignored. It is also becoming clear that years of austerity has left many people living in poverty, who have been disproportionately impacted by Covid.
The least that the government could do now is to rectify their mistakes by properly funding the NHS, sorting out Social Care, and paying health staff a fair wage for everything they have, and are still going through.