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Collected Item: “COVID support groups”

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COVID support groups

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I did some heritage work for this hospital a couple years ago so I follow their social media. Apparently they’ve founded a COVID support group for people who have been profoundly impacted by COVID-related illness, death, and disability. I sometimes think that the chronic illness and disabling nature of long COVID is often overlooked. Who can blame anyone for overlooking it with all of the more obvious, loud, visible problems wrought by the pandemic? Anyhow this is something to think about.

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support, disability, long COVID, community, hospital, Kenmore, New York

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https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/new-covid-support-group-at-local-hospital-it-can-change-lives-patient-says-pandemic/71-c7888c64-5f3d-43ce-a06d-7754c6f238df?fbclid=IwAR1M3SGTe0JaNcz1MmnjC_wqrRpObHPRbJOYcoBs7Yd51fdzQZVlsYN0hqk

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Michael Wooten

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2022-02-22
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