One year later, Northern BC COVID-19 long-hauler still dealing with severe symptoms
SHARE ON: Kirsten s illness lasted nine weeks, however she is still dealing with long term effects one year later. /Photo submitted by Kirsten Rudolph, taken in March 2020
It started with a mild but persistent cough and quickly dissolved into what Kirsten Rudolph describes as four months of ‘living hell.’
The 52-year old Vanderhoof tattoo artist, and former Prince George resident, is one of many COVID ‘long-haulers.’
Meaning, people still experiencing severe symptoms months after their initial infection.
“I felt like I was drowning in fire. It literally felt like I couldn’t get a breath, I couldn’t inflate my lungs and the coughing didn’t stop,” said Rudolph.
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Jess Scicchigno, a New Dorp Beach resident with asthma and a condition called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), is one of the Island’s residents affected by high pollution levels. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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[This is part two of a two-part series analyzing Staten Island’s air pollution and the coronavirus outbreak.]
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Lawsuit seeks stop to unnecessary placements in N.H. nursing homes
Published: 1/12/2021 12:59:09 PM
Some of the neediest people in New Hampshire are being unnecessarily institutionalized. That’s according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Jan. 11.
The suit, filed by New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire, AARP Foundation, and the Manchester office of Nixon Peabody LLP, pertains to New Hampshire residents who depend on the state to provide them with Medicaid-funded long-term care and the state’s failure to properly administer its Choices for Independence (“CFI”) Medicaid waiver.
The suit alleges that New Hampshire’s failure to deliver CFI services places a class of individuals at risk of unnecessary and dangerous institutionalization in long-term-care facilities.