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Patients tell Senate Health & Welfare their long COVID struggles and ask for clinics, workplace protections and prevention
Summary
Two Vermont patients testified that long COVID produced severe, lasting disability, gaps in specialty access and workplace harm; they urged the legislature to fund clinics, expand clinician training, restore prevention measures in schools, and support workplace accommodation programs such as RETAIN.
Two people with long COVID gave extended testimony to the Senate Health and Welfare committee, describing severe disability, difficulty obtaining timely specialty care, loss of employment and calls for policy changes to prevent further harm.
Aylin Roy, a Vermont educator who said she worked for Head Start and later became disabled with long COVID, described an illness course that left her at one point weighing 87 pounds, experiencing daily chest pain and cognitive…
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