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.
The clinic is one of dozens of such facilities that have cropped up around the U.S. to address a puzzling aspect of COVID-19 — the effects that can stubbornly afflict some people weeks or months after the infection itself has subsided. Current indications are that up to 30% of patients continue to have significant problems that intrude on daily life two to three weeks after testing positive. Perhaps as many as 10% are still afflicted three to six months later, according to Dr. Wesley Self, a Vanderbilt University emergency physician and researcher who co-wrote a JulyDoctors have known for months that intensive care patients can face extended recoveries. But many COVID-19 long-haulers were never critically ill.
Long-term COVID-19 care has been launched in settings ranging from big research hospitals like New York’s Mount Sinai, which has over 1,600 patients, to St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a network of community clinics in south Los Angeles. “I think it’s really important for other patients to receive the same care,” Flores, 38, said through a Spanish interpreter. “I don’t feel the same. I don’t think anything will ever be the same, but there’s no other way around it: I have to keep moving forward.”
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