For people with severe Long COVID, medical care is out of reach

Getting medical help for any severity of Long COVID is challenging. The disease can manifest as over 200 different symptoms, ranging in severity from mildly impacting quality of life to completely debilitating. For those in the most severe categories — who are barely or completely unable to leave their beds — accessing quality care is nearly impossible. Their struggles reveal yawning gaps in a medical system that chronically ill people have been falling through for decades.