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Hi. My name is Charlie, and long Covid has destroyed my life.
Before my “mild infection”, I was a healthy, fit 30-year-old, biking 10 miles a day with no prior health issues, the type of person the CDC says should bounce back after two weeks. Well, it’s been two years and I’ve yet to bounce back. I can’t work or leave the house, and I rely on my partner as a full-time caretaker. I still can’t breathe right. It is a living nightmare. Writing this piece would have taken me an evening before I was sick, but now this level of cognitive exertion takes an entire week to complete.
There are millions suffering through this every day, stuck in a twilight zone of never-ending debilitating symptoms for months, and now years, after infection. And with a reported 10-30% of infections leading to this condition, we are witnessing the greatest mass disabling event in human history – the scale of which demands the same “Operation Warp Speed” type of urgency that was given to acute Covid and the development of vaccines.
This is still a new disease, and it will take time to understand everything. However, research is quickly unraveling the disease process, and it is no longer a “complete mystery”. So while we can only push science so fast, here are my four questions about the treatment, support and prevention of long Covid.
www.theguardian.com
Before my “mild infection”, I was a healthy, fit 30-year-old, biking 10 miles a day with no prior health issues, the type of person the CDC says should bounce back after two weeks. Well, it’s been two years and I’ve yet to bounce back. I can’t work or leave the house, and I rely on my partner as a full-time caretaker. I still can’t breathe right. It is a living nightmare. Writing this piece would have taken me an evening before I was sick, but now this level of cognitive exertion takes an entire week to complete.
There are millions suffering through this every day, stuck in a twilight zone of never-ending debilitating symptoms for months, and now years, after infection. And with a reported 10-30% of infections leading to this condition, we are witnessing the greatest mass disabling event in human history – the scale of which demands the same “Operation Warp Speed” type of urgency that was given to acute Covid and the development of vaccines.
This is still a new disease, and it will take time to understand everything. However, research is quickly unraveling the disease process, and it is no longer a “complete mystery”. So while we can only push science so fast, here are my four questions about the treatment, support and prevention of long Covid.
We need answers to these four long Covid questions | Charlie McCone
I was a fit 30-year-old, and long Covid has destroyed my life. It’s frustrating how little action there has been
www.theguardian.com
