Music Therapy Brings Solace To COVID-19 Patients And Healers

Tom Sweitzer hosts a weekly music therapy group via Zoom for other COVID-19 survivors dealing with lingering symptoms. "We get to know each other through the music," says one participant. "I think that was a really intuitive and wonderful way to connect us."

Even when forced online by the pandemic, music therapy sessions continue to help patients in some ways talk therapy can’t. “Music is this portal,” says one therapist and COVID-19 long-hauler.

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Elizabeth Blair