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For up to 600,000 Coloradans, long COVID is a daily headache: chronic illness has stifled their lives. Now, new research at CU Anschutz is seeking to inform medical professionals about how best to treat it.
In November 2019, Laron Smith was forbidden by airline officials from taking his connecting flight from Chicago to Arizona because of his erratic behavior. Airline employees called Smith’s father in Arizona, as well as his mother in Pittsburgh, and said he’d been acting strangely. Smith, now 26, believed then that
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DENVER â New research on the mental health effects of COVID-19 resonates with some Colorado survivors that battled severe cases of the disease. I m in that 30%, Clarence Troutman said.
Troutman s medical doctors consider him to be a COVID-19 long-hauler. He fought the disease for nearly 60 days at UCHealth and still occasionally needs at-home oxygen.
Now, for the first time, Troutman shared his personal journey of COVID-19 s psychological impacts with Denver7. For me personally, I was so focused on getting well physically that I kind of put the mental part of aside for the time being, he said. Now that I m feeling better physically, I m starting to find some of the psychological issues.