NYC women more likely than men to develop Long COVID: City Council Hearing
Transgender and gender-nonconforming patients can also face stigma and barriers to care.
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Transgender and gender-nonconforming patients can also face stigma and barriers to care.
There is no universal clinical definition for long COVID, but there are more than 200 symptoms associated with it.
The revelation defies a pledge by city health officials in the early spring, when they said they would keep city-run testing sites open despite rollbacks at the federal level.
City doctors say that long COVID can be confusing and sometimes scary — but also that people don’t need to suffer in silence.
Mayor Eric Adams says that offering immediate prescriptions to people who test positive at the mobile sites will help address concerns over inequities in distributing antiviral treatments.