Long-haul COVID and the chronic illness debate Here, arguments about the scope and treatment of Lyme disease become pertinent.
By Ross Douthat, New York Times February 2, 2021 11:31am Text size Copy shortlink:
In the New York Times Sunday Magazine about a week ago, there were two powerful stories about so-called long-haul COVID a form of the disease that seems to leave certain patients permanently sick, creating a legacy of chronic illness that may be with us long after vaccines have consigned the pandemic s acute phase to the past.
One was a first-person account by my colleague Laura Holson, detailing her nine months with the disease: the initial terrifying springtime surge of symptoms, and then the persistent ones low fever, brain fogs, mild chest aches that were punctuated, in her case, by a brief return of the more frightening ones, the crushing chest pain and racing pulse and gasps for air. Her story