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It’s one more reason to consider getting a COVID vaccine. About 10% of patients in New Jersey and around the world who get the novel coronavirus become “long haulers,” not fully recovering from COVID for multiple weeks or even months after first testing positive and getting sick. Some long-haulers initially seem to recover but then weeks later suddenly become plagued with a variety of symptoms, and some people who got COVID at that start of the pandemic 14 months ago continue to struggle. “Symptoms can range from mild to debilitating, incapacitating symptoms,” said Dr. Vanessa Trespalacios, medical director for the RWJBarnabas Health Post COVID Care program. ....
KarlPK says: Very good comments below from Steve White. I think it is troubling that we have moved into the realm where so many issues are viewed through the prism of racism. The issues are very complex, and any discussion that zeroes in on a handful of emotionally inflammatory “causes” risks being superficial at best, misleading at worst. Moreover, many of the complaints are purely anecdotal. First, we hear that people have “the heightened burdens to convince providers that their conditions are real.” That is a purely perceptual conclusion, not a scientific one. In the spirit of journalistic speculation, perhaps individuals who go to doctors simply can’t be helped right now, given the incomplete and fragmentary state of knowledge about “long covid,” and therefore misinterpret that as callous indifference. It’s not surprising then that we have a White person quoted who feels the same way. Oh, well onto the next issue! ....