“Our members are getting denied disability every day and this is a recognition of the wrap-around services that we are going to need to provide to all survivors of COVID.”
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“And it’s not the end of the line either. It is a good first step. I worry that it’s a bit toothless because we still don’t have a diagnostic code for long-term COVID, said Diana Berrent, the founder of the organization @Survivor_Corps.
She’s preparing to lobby at the Capitol.
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“We need long-term COVID care centers throughout the country. I could go on and on. We need a billing code. We need a name,” Berrent said.”
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“This is a disabling disease and people are unable to go back to work. And the symptoms that I’m describing are brutal. This isn’t the sort of just pushing through a little bit of fatigue or brain fog, this is keeping people from going back to work,” Berrent said.
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