In the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022, Lauren Shoemaker couldn’t wait to return to her usual routine of skiing, backpacking, and pregaming her family’s eight-mile…
Read more ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’Alexis Misko’s health has improved enough that, once a month, she can leave her house for a few hours. First, she needs to build up her energy by…
Read more What Fatigue Really MeansImagine you need to send a letter. The mailbox is only two blocks away, but the task feels insurmountable. Air hunger seizes you whenever you walk, you’re plagued…
Read more Long-Haulers Are Trying to Define ThemselvesUpdated at 6:29 p.m. ET on April 21, 2023 Charlie McCone has been struggling with the symptoms of long COVID since he was first infected, in March 2020.…
Read more Long COVID Is Being Erased—AgainIn the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most…
Read more The Future of Long COVIDSOURCES: Zachary Schwartz, MD, medical director, Vancouver General Hospital’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic. Rainu Kaushal, MD, senior associate dean for clinical research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City; co-lead,…
Read more ‘A Huge Deal’: Millions Have Long COVID, and More Are ExpectedIt’s estimated that more than a third of people who have had COVID-19 experience neurological complications such as brain fog that persist or develop 3 months after infection.…
Read more Long COVID Experts: ‘So Incredibly Clear What’s at Stake’On March 25, 2020, Hannah Davis was texting with two friends when she realized that she couldn’t understand one of their messages. In hindsight, that was the first…
Read more One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
