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Long-Haul COVID Renews Push to Expand Palliative Care


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Long-Haul COVID Renews Push to Expand Palliative Care
A nurse visits a hospice patient in his Dubuque, Iowa, home in 2019. Palliative and hospice care are similar, but palliative care patients don’t have a terminal illness and rarely can get the care at home. Palliative care providers and medical organizations are pressing the Biden administration to increase such care.
Jessica Reilly
Telegraph Herald via The Associated Press
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has left an estimated tens of thousands of Americans with long-term debilitating symptoms, has prompted a renewed push to provide full palliative care services to seriously ill patients in their homes. ....

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