Mountain sanatoriums whose fresh-air and sunlight cures once drew tuberculosis patients are reinventing themselves for a new generation: patients suffering from the lingering effects of COVID-19. 

The WHO has warned that ‘long COVID’, which includes not just respiratory difficulties and fatigue, but also anxiety and depression, may burden health systems for years to come.

However, for those that can afford it, former TB sanatoriums across Europe are there to help. 

Early in the pandemic, Klinik Wald, built in Zurich’s highlands in 1898 for low income TB patients, took many people straight from intensive care.