COVID-19 long haul patients are struggling with doctors and employers as they battle lingering symptoms that make them feel 'crazy.'
. Instead, he got worse. Fatigue. Nerve pain. Blood-pressure fluctuations. A brain that fritzes out every so often, leaving him unsure where he's supposed to be or what he's supposed to be doing. Returning to his pre-infection job of helping surgeons in the operating room is out of the question.
"I'm 29 years old and I feel like I'm 70," said Smith, who lives in Atlanta."We are alive, but not living. And most of our lab work and testing comes back clean, but we are super sick, and doctors tell us we are crazy."Experts say potentially tens of millions of Americans face consequences of long COVID, although exactly how many remains unclear.
"What we're seeing is that people with more chronic effects can't return to their usual function," saidof the Institute of Health Informatics at University College in London, who runs a long COVID treatment clinic."If you're not able to work from home, that's a concern. What do you do when you have to go in?"
Health experts say long COVID poses a particularly significant risk to frontline essential employees, such as hospital cleaning staff and meatpacking workers, because those are groups least likely to have good health insurance, paid sick time or savings accounts to let them recuperate. Labor experts say the U.S. labor force today
"We know that a lot of people with English as a second language, gig workers, people without insurance, they are not able to come to see us," said Bell, who runs the COVIDat the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "Even for people who can get to safety-net hospitals, the hospitals are swamped."
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