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Music Therapy Brings Solace To COVID-19 Patients And Healers
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Tom Sweitzer hosts a weekly music therapy group via Zoom for other COVID-19 survivors dealing with lingering symptoms. We get to know each other through the music, says one participant. I think that was a really intuitive and wonderful way to connect us.
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Tom Sweitzer knows firsthand how social isolation and loneliness are real side effects of living through a pandemic just as mental health professionals have warned. After he tested positive for the coronavirus last July and recovered from the worst of his initial symptoms, Sweitzer joined a COVID-19 support group on Facebook to help him deal with the condition s lingering effects.
Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can t. "Music is this portal," says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.