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Blake Farmer

Treating long COVID means guesswork

A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Medical equipment is still strewn around the house of Rick Lucas, 62, nearly two years after he came home from the hospital. He picks up a spirometer, a device that measures lung capacity, and takes a deep breath — though not as deep as he'd like.

Still, Lucas has come a long way for someone who spent more than three months on a ventilator because of covid-19.

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