By MEREDITH COHN | The Baltimore Sun | Published: December 30, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. BALTIMORE (Tribune News Service) Just as much of the nation was shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Michaelene Carlton’s 17-year-old son tested positive for COVID-19 and quickly passed it to his parents. Carlton had the worst of the symptoms but never went to a hospital and mostly recovered in a couple of weeks. “Then, six weeks later I got ridiculously sick, like so sick I lost about 10% of my body weight and could barely get out of bed,” said the usually healthy 46-year-old Delaware woman who eventually landed at a Johns Hopkins Hospital clinic for post-COVID-19 patients.