New clinics aid coronavirus 'long-haulers': 'We know this is real'

Like so much else in the pandemic, the scientific picture of so-called long-haulers is still developing.

But some symptoms lingered: fatigue she never experienced during years of rising at 5 a.m. for work; pain, especially in her hands and wrists; an altered sense of taste and smell that made food unappealing; and a welling depression. After eight months of suffering, she made her way to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center — to a clinic specifically for post-COVID-19 care. "I felt myself in kind of a hole, and I couldn’t look on the bright side," Busa said. She did not feel helped by visits to other doctors. But it was different at the clinic.