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Betsy Ladyzhets

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People With Long Covid Face Barriers to Government Disability Benefits

By Betsy Ladyzhets November 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Some people with long covid have fallen through the cracks of the government’s disability system, which was time-consuming and difficult to navigate even before the pandemic.

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