New clinics help COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ Published: January 26, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left. The 54-year-old New York City school secretary didn’t have any underlying.
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COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left.
The 54-year-old New York City school secretary didn’t have any underlying health problems when she caught the coronavirus in March, and she recovered at her Queens home.
But some symptoms lingered: fatigue she never experienced during years of rising at 5 a.m. for work; pain, especially in her hands and wrists; an altered sense of taste and smell that made food unappealing; and a welling depression. After eights months of suffering, she made her way to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center to a clinic specifically for post-COVID-19 care.
“I felt myself in kind of a hole, and I couldn’t look on the bright side,” Busa said. She did not feel helped by visits to other doctors. But it was different at the clinic.
UpdatedThu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:30 pm ET
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Catherine Busa rides an exercise bike as part of her recovery from COVID-19 at her home in Queens, New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
ACROSS AMERICA Catherine Busa was one of the first Americans to contract the coronavirus at the start of the pandemic last March. Despite recovering at her home in Queens, the New York City school secretary has said the long-term effects of the virus have never left. I felt myself in kind of a hole, and I couldn t look on the bright side, said Busa, who told The Associated Press her lingering symptoms include fatigue, an altered sense of taste and smell that made food unappealing, and a welling depression.
Dozens of clinics have cropped up around the U.S. to address a puzzling and troubling aspect of COVID-19 the after-effects that can stubbornly afflict some people weeks or months after the infection itself has subsided.