


Without more relief payments from the state, he doesn’t know how he’ll pay his bills.ĬOVID-19 sent Janine Loftis to the hospital in 2020. He spent all of his savings and borrowed money from family. Stephen Mintz gets just $60 per week from disability, which he receives after the chronic fatigue from COVID-19 kept him from regular work. Although she can afford it, she knows few people can do the same.

In the past two months, she has paid more than $7,500 out-of-pocket for medical care. In California, there are no legislative proposals to help despite long wait times for care and expensive treatments.Ī bout with COVID-19 two years ago left Mindy Lym with such severe sensitivities to light and sound that she and her partner left their San Francisco home and moved to rural Washington, where there were fewer triggers. As many resume their pre-pandemic lives, those with long COVID struggle with debilitating symptoms.
