Daily News | Years after hospitalization, those who got sickest from the pandemic still struggle with long COVID
A COVID infection around Christmas 2020, before a vaccine was available to him, left the formerly healthy 55-year-old Wayne man battling a constellation of medical complications.
His recovery seemed so doubtful at one point that his wife, son, and daughter had set a date to remove him from the machines keeping him alive.by the infection that he had to retire early from his job as Ikea’s graphic design manager in the United States.
“It is just trial and error,” said Tabata. “It’s like, hoping that you didn’t miss anything or hoping you didn’t forget to inform somebody that you’re doing something.”diagnosed with long-term COVID, a term used to describe a constellation of COVID symptoms that linger for three months or more, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The experience can range from loss of smell or numbness in extremities to a debilitating chronic condition that can include respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological problems all at once.
Michael Harhay, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who researches long COVID, called it a mass disability event.he said.COVID cases keep rising and so does the risk of long COVID. Philly researchers are trying to understand why.
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