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Alberta’s fledgling COVID-19 recovery clinics are watching the third wave and bracing for their own wave of new patients in two to three months time.
But they’re not talking just about older adults with lung scarring or wasted muscles from a long stay in intensive care.
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Clinicians and therapists specializing in long-haul COVID say typical patients are 30-year-old to 50-year-old women, otherwise healthy adults who often had mild symptoms during the initial infection. Then they’re hit with a viral flare-up with symptoms of neurological damage, brain fog, a racing heart or extreme fatigue similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. And it’s not going away.