Like most symptoms mediated by the autonomic nervous system, POTS is extremely easy for a health-anxious person to develop without any etiological cause. Some

Like most symptoms mediated by the autonomic nervous system, POTS is extremely easy for a health-anxious person to develop without any etiological cause. Some of us are very practiced in the art of these symptoms and quickly saw familiar patterns emerge in our friends and neighbors during the wave of isolation and anxiety that washed over everyone in the pandemic. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t real long-standing health consequences to Covid or the pandemic response, but it does make it reeeeaaaallly hard to discern the signal from the noise. Health anxiety is a real PITA, for individuals who face it, for the health care providers tasked to help them, and for the individuals with critical problems now lost to the noise.