Four weeks after San Diego pediatric nurse Jennifer Minhas fell ill with COVID-19 last March, her cough and fever had resolved, but new symptoms had emerged: chest pain, an elevated heart rate and crushing fatigue.
Minhas’ primary care physician told her she was just anxious, and that none of her other COVID patients had those issues. “That wasn’t what I needed to hear,” Minhas said.
At times, she’s been too exhausted to hold up her head. “I was kind of a zombie for months, shuffling around unable to do much of anything.”
The clinical term for the flattening fatigue Minhas describes is “post-exertional malaise.” It is a common symptom among patients who have not recovered from COVID. It is also consistent with a standard feature of another chronic illness: myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
social implications and for which there is at this point in time no cure and lots of resentment among the patients about the way they are treated, the way they are isolated, and the way the disease is not taken seriously. particularly there is great unhappiness about the amount of research done in the u.s. government for this disease. of course, this is critical, because this is a time when there is less and less money in the federal budget maybe none at all for diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome. i assembled an extraordinary panel of interesting, provocative people who will keep you riveted, i assure you. we will be right back. white house chronicle is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org this program is sponsored by public service, a leader in renewable energy, hopi
people, which has all sorts of social implications and for which there is at this point in time no cure and lots of resentment among the patients about the way they are treated, the way they are isolated, and the way the disease is not taken seriously. particularly there is great unhappiness about the amount of research done in the u.s. government for this disease. of course, this is critical, because this is a time when there is less and less money in the federal budget maybe none at all for diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome. i assembled an extraordinary panel of interesting, provocative people who will keep you riveted, i assure you. we will be right back. white house chronicle is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org this program is sponsored by public service, a l
people, which has all sorts of social implications and for which there is at this point in time no cure and lots of resentment among the patients about the way they are treated, the way they are isolated, and the way the disease is not taken seriously. particularly there is great unhappiness about the amount of research done in the u.s. government for this disease. of course, this is critical, because this is a time when there is less and less money in the federal budget maybe none at all for diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome. i assembled an extraordinary panel of interesting, provocative people who will keep you riveted, i assure you. we will be right back. white house chronicle is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org this program is sponsored by public service, a l
people, which has all sorts of social implications and for which there is at this point in time no cure and lots of resentment among the patients about the way they are treated, the way they are isolated, and the way the disease is not taken seriously. particularly there is great unhappiness about the amount of research done in the u.s. government for this disease. of course, this is critical, because this is a time when there is less and less money in the federal budget maybe none at all for diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome. i assembled an extraordinary panel of interesting, provocative people who will keep you riveted, i assure you. we will be right back. white house chronicle is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org this program is sponsored by public service, a l