St. Louis Public Radio
Chelsea Merta of St. Louis contracted the coronavirus months ago and still deals with fatigue almost daily.
When Christine Ruder became sick with the coronavirus last fall, the Rolla elementary school teacher experienced a “bingo card of coronavirus symptoms.” She had fever, hives and stomach problems.
After a while those symptoms went away, but they were replaced with new ones, like difficulty finding words.
“I couldn’t think of common everyday objects,” she said. “I need to get that stuff out of the fridge. What do you call that stuff? It’s white? Oh, milk!”
Ruder is one of the many people who doctors say have “long COVID,” a group of symptoms that persists for weeks or months after a person has recovered from the initial infection.