About a quarter of COVID-19 patients will develop long-term symptoms, which has prompted health care officials and workers’ compensation stakeholders to engineer multifaceted treatment strategies and new case management approaches, medical and comp experts said.
And while many patients who contract COVID experience only mild symptoms, injured workers who suffer from complicated post-infection issues may require complex and expensive rehabilitation for pulmonary, physical and mental health needs, they said.
“Navigating a patient through long COVID or long-hauler syndrome reall...
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