Long Covid has affected as many as 23 million Americans. It may cost the U.S. economy $3.7 trillion, roughly that of the Great Recession, according to one estimate.
What experts do know is that for some, long Covid symptoms can last months or even years. About 15% of people whose ailments persist three months after infection continued to experience symptoms at least 12 months after infection, according to the meta-analysis.
Meanwhile, Hurst is struggling to make ends meet. In addition to Medicaid health benefits, she receives public assistance via food stamps. Her credit cards are"getting maxed out.""It will probably continue this way for me until there is a test, a medication, more research, more education for the public, for doctors," she added."This is going to be my experience for a while"'All sorts of testing' to try for a diagnosisthe code in October 2021.
"In many cases, the diagnosis is [long Covid] because there's nothing else to explain the condition," said Alice Burns, associate director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at health care nonprofit The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation."It's the diagnosis when all other diagnoses have been ruled out."
Donna Pohl, 56, met with a neuromuscular specialist in mid-November to help treat nerve damage that resulted from long Covid. The visit didn't go well.
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