Emma Samms has just marked what she called a strange anniversary.
One year ago, she fell ill with COVID-19 after returning to her U.K. home from a trip to the U.S., and she s been sick ever since. Everybody said, 10 days and it will be over and you ll come out the other side, the soap star tells PEOPLE. But some days I can barely get out of bed and it is the most incredibly frustrating thing. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Samms, 60, who has starred on
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General Hospital, is one of a growing number of people who have developed what doctors are now referring to as Long COVID, a collection of symptoms including extreme fatigue that last months after the original infection. According to Dr. Anthony Komaroff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, anywhere between 10 and 50 percent of people who got COVID may have substantial symptoms six months later.
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Our latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows broad support for Donald Trump and the GOP’s position on transgender athletes in women’s sports. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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DONALD TRUMP railed against transgender athletes in female sports in his CPAC speech a few weeks ago. Other prominent voices on the right have joined in, calling it an example of political correctness having a real-world impact. Our latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows broad support for the GOP position, extending across gender, age and, to a lesser degree, party.
Flashback to The Before: It was the end of 2019 and Michelle Obama had just wrapped up hush-hush filming of the yet-unannounced Netflix series
Waffles + Mochi, a technicolor dream of happy puppets discovering the joys of healthy eating under the tutelage of Mrs. O, who plays the neighborhood grocer. I m basically being myself, the former first lady says. The entire concept is fun … an adventure. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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But within weeks, COVID-19 came to America and Obama, like the rest of the world, was on a whole other adventure. She shares her careening ride through the mess that was 2020 Americans quarantining at home, schools closed, kids remote learning, racial injustice and demonstrations in the streets, the vitriol of the presidential campaign in an extensive in
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) A Redwood City grandmother is turning sidewalk space into creations of art.
ABC7 caught up with Mary Kay Mitchell, also known as Chalk Granny, at her home on Anamor Street.
She was busy coloring in a beautiful Phoenix above the phrase hope rises.
Mitchell began her chalk artistry when the COVID-19 shutdown first began. I got really bored, and I got my grandson s Crayola chalks out, she said. And I drew a little sign on my sidewalk that says, when this is all over, what will you remember? Then I looked at it and thought, huh? What am I going to remember?