LongCOVID patients seek experimental therapies for relief from symptoms, but doctors fear potential harm, both physical and financial, from unproven treatments.
improved some long COVID symptoms, for example, but the expensive treatment is extremely difficult to study on a large scale, said Zachary Schwartz, MD, head of the Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital in Canada.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy through alternative healthcare providers may cost as much as $100 or $200 a session, some estimate. A home medical device may cost $1,000, while supplements can quickly add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars."Some of them are already struggling because they can't work or have to reduce work and they can't make ends meet.... I have yet to find or hear of anything that has really helped them.
"There are very, very, very few long COVID therapeutic trials and people have really been dragging their feet," said University of California-San Francisco's Peluso."It's been very frustrating. That's why we're in this situation."
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