Some COVID-19 long haulers in Minnesota still lack diagnosis

Andy Flosdorf never had a positive diagnosis for COVID-19, because tests were tightly rationed by the state when his symptoms started in late March 2020. But the 51-year-old health care consultant in Minnetonka is still feeling the effects of COVID a year later — fatigue, brain fog, episodic chest pains and headaches. His so-called Long COVID symptoms were recently diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, anotherpoorly understooddisorder. Not everyone who has long-lasting multi-system effects months after COVID end up with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). But evidence from a handful of studies so far, using self-reported outcomes, shows high numbers of patients reporting lingering problems.