Long COVID: Learning as We Go Patterns are beginning to emerge as more patients are being referred to post–COVID-19 clinics in the United States. | IDSE

CEID Founding Director Dr. Nahid Bhadelia’s comments from a recent Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) media briefing are quoted:

…’I work at Boston Medical Center, and up to 40% of our patients in the acute setting are patients who are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. In the worst months of this pandemic, we know when 70% of our inpatient wards were filled with COVID patients, that’s who we were seeing—front-line essential workers from many communities that were hard-hit.

‘But we’ve had a long COVID clinic now for a few months, and we’re not seeing many of those patients actually coming in for care. And that raises a big question, not just for clinical care, but also for research in terms of understanding the burden of long COVID and other post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 among populations, among communities that were heavily hit,’ Dr. Bhadelia said…”

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