Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic. Lauren Nichols has been sick with COVID-19 since March 10, shortly before Tom Hanks announced his diagnosis and the NBA temporarily canceled its season. She has lived through one month of …
For Long Haulers, Surviving COVID-19 Is Just the Start of Their Battle
Some patients who survive the coronavirus are experiencing chronic symptoms that last as long as months, baffling scientists. Called "long haulers," this group is fighting to be recognized amid the world's struggle to contain the pandemic. Read more about what these survivors go through and why their battle may have only just begun.
There’s a growing number of people around the globe who have survived Covid-19, only to find persistent symptoms lasting weeks or months, and even …
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(CNN) — Covid-19 can have lasting impacts on the body, but there is hope that patients can not only recover over time, but can do so more quickly with pulmonary rehabilitation, preliminary research suggests. Two early research reports to be presented Monday at the European Respiratory Society …
Some parents report that their kids’ symptoms have lingered for months. Experts, meanwhile, aren’t sure what’s going on. When 7-year-old Jake Mahler …
As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, an unknown number of seemingly recovered patients are experiencing what is being called post-Covid syndrome — …
Forty hours after treating her first coronavirus patient, on March 30, Angela Aston came home to her family with a cough. “Gosh, your throat is scratchy,” her husband told her. Right away she knew she had likely been infected with Covid-19. As a nurse practitioner, Ms. Aston, 50, was confident she …
Imagine being young and healthy, a nonsmoker with no preexisting health conditions, and then waking up one morning feeling like you were being …