Larner Assistant Professor of Medicine Katherine Menson, D.O., pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center, commented in a VTDigger article on long COVID sufferers seeking help from Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee members.
Many patients with long COVID originally only had mild to moderate symptoms of the virus, but weeks or months after their original symptoms, people commonly continue to suffer from exhaustion after exercise, brain fog, and gastrointestinal issues. “There’s just so many symptoms that can present with long COVID,” Menson said. And that makes it harder for doctors to treat the illness, she added.