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In communities of color, long-covid patients are tired of being sick and neglected

It’s bad enough patients of color are coping with a debilitating illness. It’s more devastating, they said, to feel like they’re being erased — from medical records, public imagination, and policy.

Jeanine Hays and husband Bryan Mason on a hiking trail in Napanoch, N.Y. Because her long covid has many symptoms, they take precautions like wearing N95 masks outside. MUST CREDIT: Yehyun Kim for The Washington Post
Jeanine Hays and husband Bryan Mason on a hiking trail in Napanoch, N.Y. Because her long covid has many symptoms, they take precautions like wearing N95 masks outside. MUST CREDIT: Yehyun Kim for The Washington PostRead moreYehyun Kim / The Washington Post