Biden invisible hand shake6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Two years later, I still have tremors, rashes, crushing fatigue, nerve pain and a swelling throat." ![]() "Now I take four medications, eight supplements, every day. "Before COVID, I took a daily multivitamin," she said. Before COVID, she recalled being able to hike and run for more than 10 miles at a time. It has not been a comfortable adjustment for Dornan-Fish. Studies so far estimate as much as 10 to 30% of people who get COVID may later develop long-hauler symptoms. MORE: How monoclonal antibodies work against omicron variantĪfter even a mild initial infection, many COVID survivors across a diverse age group still report exhaustion, cognitive problems and other symptoms. Some theories from experts include a person having a particularly high viral load when they first get sick or lingering COVID viral particles sticking around in the body even after a person has "cleared" their initial infection or another virus that was previously latent getting reactivated, like Epstein-Barr. Researchers are pushing to find better treatments to help long-haulers - and better answers to understand why they're impacted for so long, with more than a billion federal dollars devoted to studying COVID's prolonged health consequences. What was once understood as a respiratory virus has emerged, for many, as an all-out attack on the system. “‘When you're better-' it breaks my heart." "He sometimes says, 'mom, when you're better, I can't wait 'til we play this game again," she said. ![]() Her son, now 13 years old, has seen how post-COVID has ravaged her health. "Not to be glib, but I've lived in the jungles of Belize and have killed poisonous deadly snakes with machetes. "For a little while - and it has gotten better - but a bird would cheep outside the window, and I would jump," she said. Or, like there's an earthquake inside me," she said. "I'm not actually shaking on the outside, but it feels like a vibrating cell phone in my chest. ![]()
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