Cutbacks Force Long-COVID Clinic Closures: What Now?

Since 2021, the UNC COVID Recovery Clinic served thousands of patients struggling with post-COVID symptoms. But the loss of multiple funding sources forced it to shutter its doors for good over the summer of 2025. This closure underscores the precarious outlook facing other COVID rehabilitation facilities across the US and elsewhere. Directors of other clinics say they may be next, with federal officials drastically cutting funding for health programs. Many clinics are still experiencing waitlists and backlogs, doctors say, even as burned-out staff grapple with worries over the future of its operations.

Long COVID Coverage

From reinfection risks to the leading hypotheses on the causes behind long COVID, learn more about this potentially debilitating condition in these stories written for WebMD.

Can this surgery model help shorten wait times and provide better care?

Imagine having a potentially shorter wait time for surgery or having ready access to a second - or possibly third - opinion on your diagnosis. In many pockets of Canada’s vast and complex health-care system, physicians have worked effectively for years as a team under a “shared-care” model. Some surgeons are hoping this form of patient care can be widely adopted across surgical specialties, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada, COVID-19, CTVNews.ca, HealthS HoSeptember 29, 2022Team Care, Shared Care, Surgeons, Surgery, Surgical Backlogs, Health Care, Single EntryComment

Pandemic anniversary

For the second anniversary of the pandemic, I spoke with several doctors about the lessons learned and compiled a summary of essential COVID-19 facts and myths about the disease, masks, and vaccines for CTVNews.ca.

Canada, Coronavirus, COVID-19, CTVNews.ca, Health, ScienceS HoMarch 11, 2022Health Care, Public Health, Pandemic, Fact Check, Disinformation, Misinformation, Isaac Bogoch, MasksComment

Gender bias against female surgeons fuelling surgical backlogs

Female surgeons in Canada have long faced gender-based referral biases that result in large pay gaps, and an inequitable and inefficient environment for patients, Canadian surgeons say, but with the urgency surrounding surgical backlogs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some say the time is ripe for major changes to healthcare.

Canada, CTVNews.ca, HealthS HoMarch 26, 2021Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Surgeons, Surgery, Health Care, Surgical Backlogs, COVID-19Comment