Some Long COVID patients are pushed into psychiatric wards

A few months ago, I got a tip about a disturbing problem: people with Long COVID and similar complex chronic illnesses being pushed into psychiatric wards because doctors thought their debilitating symptoms were psychological. While this experience is extreme and relatively rare, it speaks to a bigger problem. Too often, patients with conditions that defy easy explanation are dismissed and disbelieved by the U.S. medical system.

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