Long Covid limbo: some US patients wait months for diagnosis and treatment

Patients with a range of debilitating symptoms but no positive Covid test may not qualify for specialty clinics – and may be told it’s ‘all in your head’

For months, Andrea Tomasek suspected she was suffering from debilitating symptoms brought on by a Covid-19 infection. She had a fever and her breathing was so labored she said it felt like her “lungs were sponges full of fluid”. She later experienced dizziness and periods where she would pass out.

But when the 37-year-old first started to feel sick in March 2020, the pandemic was still in its early days, so she couldn’t access a test in her home city of Savage, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2WrwM4h

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