Our social safety nets are letting more than a million COVID survivors fall through the cracks

var TRINITY_TTS_WP_CONFIG = {"cleanText":"Our social safety nets are letting more than a million COVID survivors fall through the cracks. Two friends of mine shared with me recently that they\u2019d caught COVID \u2014 they said that they were no longer ashamed of hiding it. Then a handful more people I know opened up on social media and in professional settings.\u00a0 Within the span of about two months, I knew 12 people from across the country who caught COVID in the past year and had recovered \u2014 well, sort of.\u00a0 With the exception of one person, the rest are not in healthcare or frontline work. They were all living normal lives, some with kids and some without, some in their 30s and some in their 40s, and some living in dense urban areas and some not. Then COVID hit. And life hasn\u20

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