The system has lost 20% of its workforce over the course of the pandemic, with hospital understaffing at hospitals resulting in burnout and fatigue among frontline medical professionals.
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Some COVID-19 long haulers in Minnesota still lack diagnosis Few doctors available for complex, multi-system care of Long COVID patients April 4, 2021 12:27pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Andy Flosdorf never had a positive diagnosis for COVID-19, because tests were tightly rationed by the state when his symptoms started in late March 2020.
But the 51-year-old health care consultant in Minnetonka is still feeling the effects of COVID a year later fatigue, brain fog, episodic chest pains and headaches. His so-called Long COVID symptoms were recently diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, another poorly understood disorder. There s tired, there s fatigue, there s exhaustion. And then there s something past that, which is where I ve been much of the year since, Flosdorf said.