The online community is important, because long Covid leaves some sufferers too exhausted for in-person gatherings even if they weren't more worried than most about ending up with a breakthrough case of the virus.
PHILADELPHIA — As often as three times a day, Alexandra Hackett posts on her TikTok account, adding another video entry to her chronicle of a 20-month journey with long COVID-19.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT I was a healthy 30-year-old firefighter paramedic working out five to six days a week. And this is how COVID affected me, said Karyn Bishof, founder of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project.
Karyn Bishof was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March of 2020. She had a moderate case and was never hospitalized. But now, more than a year later, she says lingering symptoms are so bad she can no longer work. I m still dealing with over 60 different symptoms, she said. I ve had a headache every single day at a level of seven out of 10 or higher. I don t sleep. I maybe average, you know, 20 to 25 hours a week of sleep. my feet and my legs swell and turn purple.
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