Latino Farmworkers Face High Rates of Long COVID, but Barriers Delay Diagnosis

Weekend Listen: Trump canceled the National Nature Assessment. Scientists will publish it anyway, how UW Medicine is treating Latino farmworkers with Long Covid, and how Mayor Katie Wilson plans to fix the “L8”

Today, we’re bringing you the best from newsrooms across Washington… First, President Joe Biden announced an executive order that created the first-ever national assessment of nature, but President Donald Trump rescinded the effort on his first day in office. The team that had started the work – led by a professor at the University of Washington – refused to give it up. Next, doctors at UW Medicine’s Long Covid Clinic are beginning to see patter…

Latino farmworkers face high rates of long COVID, but barriers delay diagnosis

SEATTLE — The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried.

Latino farmworkers face high rates of long COVID but barriers delay diagnosis

Anita Chopra, M.D., FACP, runs the post-COVID clinic at UW Medicine Primary Care in Shoreline, and says she is encountering more cases of long COVID in her practice. (Photo by Daniel Berman)SEATTLE – The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the once-healthy patient described symptoms of weakness, chronic fatigue and frequently forgetting daily activities. “I still se…