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6/15/21  2:30 pm
Commenter: covid19 side effects linger

Lingering non life threatening effect
 

The pandemic may have lingering hidden health issues, both physical and mental. 

Please consider expanding healthcare insurance coverage for those items. 

For example, through conversation, people that are trying to get back to normal life pre pandemic is running into difficulties.  The virus may have inserted long term side effects such as mood swing, anger, confusion, sleep problems, hallucinations, feeling restless or irritable, depression, memory weakening, hives, difficult breathing, sore throat, burning eyes, skin pain, blistering and peeling, blood vessel inflammation, weak or tired, tingling or numbness in arms or legs, stomach pain, diarrhea, trouble hearing, headache, and other minor but painful symptoms.

Some people may feel forced to live with these side effects because they don't want their employer to know, risking job termination.

Let's look into these things?

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