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A DePaul University study of nearly 280 long-haulers people who experience symptoms of COVID-19 months after their initial diagnosis found that while most of the symptoms improved over time, some lingered or even got worse.
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Details from a long hauler’s life; bottom center: PET/MRI brain image of an infected SARS-COV-2 patient.
Covid-19 is a trickster. Those who have lived with it the longest often describe the disease as if it knows what mischief it’s making. Miel Singletary Schultz, a 48-year-old “long hauler” and former sailing crew worker in San Diego, thought she had experienced every possible symptom when in October her skin began exuding tiny yellow crystals all over her body; a fellow long hauler suggested it might be uremic frost, the manifestation of a kidney disease. The skin discharge was not the most debilitating of her dozen-plus symptoms, which included headaches, nerve pain, cognitive dysfunction, hair loss, constipation, and extreme weight loss, but this one seemed especially sinister. It suggeste