Long Covid limbo: some US patients wait months for diagnosis and treatment

<p>Patients with a range of debilitating symptoms but no positive Covid test may not qualify for specialty clinics – and may be told it’s ‘all in your head’ </p><p>For months, Andrea Tomasek suspected she was suffering from debilitating symptoms brought on by a Covid-19 infection. She had a fever and her breathing was so labored she said it felt like her “lungs were sponges full of fluid”. She later experienced dizziness and periods where she would pass out.</p><p>But when the 37-year-old first started to feel sick in March 2020, the pandemic was still in its early days, so she couldn’t access a test in her home city of Savage, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/25/long-covid-us-patients-diagnosis-treatment">Continue reading...</a>