There are no clinics to treat long COVID cases in central Florida in the United States, meaning patients are forced to resign themselves to a long road to COVID-19 clinics around the state and even longer lines, Spectrum News reported Sunday. “Long COVID clinics, far away, like ours, are overflowing with patients,” said Irene Estores, a female doctor who runs a long COVID clinic in that state.
“Patients have to wait,” she said. “For some, arriving at a long-running COVID clinic comes only after repeated attempts to find treatment elsewhere have failed,” according to the outlet. Many long-term COVID patients struggle to maintain their sanity, Spectrum News says.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that rates of depression, anxiety, and even suicide were higher among COVID-19 survivors than the rest of the world. population. An estimated 7.5% of adults in the United States suffer from post-COVID illnesses lasting longer than three months. Despite the great public interest in this issue, the effectiveness of treatments for these disorders varies from person to person, and at the same time, treatments are not widely available, adds Spectrum News.