COVID long-haulers: The lingering sickness with no expiration date
February 22, 2021 6:15 PM Maher Kawash
SPOKANE, Wash. We know COVID-19 impacts people in different ways.
Some may not even feel like they are infected, while others spend weeks in the hospital or possibly even die from the virus.
Then there are COVID “long-haulers” those who are supposedly recovered, but still suffering months after their infection.
It is a silent suffering. You think you have recovered from the worst of COVID-19, just to find out your battle with this virus is only getting started.
“We may be dealing with a group of patients who has more long-term effects, not just three months, but a year or five years or indefinite effects,” said Dr. Aaron Bunnell of UW Medicine.