COVID-related hair loss is a real thing — but these treatments can help

There’s a big fallout from the pandemic.

Hair loss brought on by the COVID-induced stress and anxiety of the past 18 months is plaguing women, but they’re finding help with a range of innovative — though often costly — treatments.  “About 30 percent of my patients were e-mailing about hair loss,” said Michele Green, a dermatologist at Lenox Hill. “It was frightening. Some had sheets of hair falling out.”