Inside a specialist long COVID clinic: Desperate patients, a huge caseload and no money
The team at St Vincent’s Long COVID Clinic say lack of funding has left them drowning in demand
Editor’s note: This article has been updated.
A middle-aged woman listens intently as her doctor points to the black marks in her lung scans.
She is scribbling furiously across a notepad on the desk out of fear she may not remember any details of the consult in a few hours’ time.
Seven months since her initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, this is her second appointment with the St Vincent Hospital’s Long COVID Clinic in Sydney.
