Private health clinics can often be more efficient for treating long COVID than their public counterparts, streamlining the process of quickly connecting patients with specialty doctors.
There is no single medication, no single therapy that makes all the symptoms better.“A visit at our clinic means that you'll be seen by myself in person, and on the same day, you'll be seen by a neuropsychologist and also a rehab specialist,” Gut said.
This multidisciplinary approach is a theme across New York City, which reportedly has more long COVID clinics than. At Maimonides, pediatric and adult patients are evaluated by an infectious disease expert, then they receive referrals to specialists depending on their symptoms. For example, a patient with heart issues may see a cardiologist, while someone with gastrointestinal symptoms may see a GI expert.
The pediatric clinic at Maimonides sees hundreds of patients from the city as well as upstate New York, Long Island and other regions, said, the director of pediatric infectious diseases at Maimonides. Other city health systems with adult long COVID clinics typically refer children here, she said. Research on long COVID in children has been limited, in part due to smaller numbers of patients. But children usually have similar symptoms to adults, Agha said. She’s been surprised to find that the condition can affect kids who were “perfectly fine before the virus hit them” along with children who had other medical conditions prior to COVID-19.Reece T. Williams/Gothamist
Children are commonly referred to psychologists and therapists, though finding the right match for a particular patient can take time, Agha said, as therapists and other mental health care workers have seen increased demand during the pandemic.Coordinating between different specialists can be a challenge for patients who have more complex cases of long COVID, whether they’reAlvarez noted that patients sometimes already have other doctors when they come to see her at Maimonides.
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