This postcovid experience has been beyond the worse experience of my life. She loved to run. Three years ago she completed the new york city marathon. The following year, berlin. At 43, she was training for another race when she got infected. This is slight unsteadiness. Now she tells us she has trouble walking more than a few blocks down the street. She says shes had so many strange and unrelenting symptoms she starte documenting them on her phone. She got tremors in her hands. And had problems with her balance. I had headache, dizziness, blurry vision, double vision, heavy limbs. Thats a lot. Its a lot. For months, she experienced memory problems, trouble finding words and confusion, something many long haulers grapple with. They call it covid brain fog, and nitsa says it made everyday tasks nearly impossible. Its like taking benadryl, kind of like a disconnect, a cloudiness to my head. But nitsa says the most terrifying symptom was when her leg started to give out. My sister said why are you walking like that. I said, i dont know, maybe im just tired. And i think three to four days after she mentioned that, i woke up and my legs felt so heavy as if a weight was pulling it down that i just my legs just didnt support me and i just kind of fell. I just got an mri. She went to the emergency room and requested an mri and a full bloodwork. Everything came back normal. The doctors were like, youre fine. Youre having anxiety attacks. Youre just nervous. They thought it was your head. They thought it was in my head. And one of those moments that ill never forget because how could i possibly be fine . And when i left the emergency room that day, i was like, im just going home to die. Sorry. Im sorry. Even recounting that is emotional. To be told what youre feeling is not real. Precisely. She eventually found her way to mt. Sinai Hospitals Center for postcovid care, focused on treating and studying long haulers. The average age of patients feeling this postacute syndrome are 20s to 40s. They were relatively healthy before. Dr. Data mccarthy is a rehab specialist. Theres a waitlist to get in. The vast majority of the patients you see here at this center were never hospitalized. Correct. So, they werent on ventilators . This is not ramifications from being in the hospital . Correct. Yep. Dr. Mccarthy is treating her patients symptoms as best she can, but isnt much closer to understanding whats causing them. Do we know now whats going on . No. No . No. We still dont know. No. I think its a little bit of a mystery. Lets take little bit out of it. I think its a mystery. This virus has many different affects on the human body just like what 9 11 did to those survivors. So, as a kind of catastrophic event at one time that causes a large group of special patients, you know, in a way, this is very similar to 9 11 but on a much grander scale. The pool of patients is much larger. Absolutely. Mount sinai is studying commonalities among that pool of patients using data theyve compiled in scanning huang haulers brains, lungs and hearts to see what damage the virus might have done. The lack of answers and the skepticism many of these patients face have contributed to high levels of depression and anxiety. Dr. Mccarthy says thats not whats making them sick. You believe its not in their heads. You believe them . Yeah, because i feel those symptoms too and i dont think its in my head. Dr. Mccarthy had what she considered a mild case of covid in march, but eight months later, she says like so many long haulers, she still finds it hard to get through the day. I basically do my work and i go home and go to sleep. Thats what im capable of doing right now. At the end of the day do you feel way more tired than you would. At the end of this day because of whats happening right now and the meetings after this, i will have the most excruciating head aache and i wl just take some tylenol and curl up in a ball and go to sleep and hope i feel better tomorrow. You can see the full report on our website, cbsnews. Com. Youre watching the cbs overnight news. Honey honey . New nyquil severe honey is maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honeylicious taste. Nyquil honey. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever best sleep with a cold medicine. Vicks vapopatch. Easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. Trusted soothing vapors, from vicks the coronavirus pandemic has touched off wide food shortages. A michelin star chef is working to battle hunger thousands of miles away in his native india. Reporter in a makeshift kitchen on the terrace of a new york city apartment these are the most interesting pepper cons in the world. Reporter this chefs attention to detail is on full display, as is his trademark drive to get things right. So, how many versions of this dish did you go through in development . Seven in seasonings, 11 in terms of plating. Reporter looking at his pan seared roasted squash, its hard to argue with his approach. Combining the tastes of his grandmothers Indian Kitchen with classical french training to develop his own distinctive the cuisine. I like to incorporate them in a creative way. Reporter and opened the hottest restaurants in new york and soon beijing and singapore. That is what the purpose of cooking is now. Reporter these days crossing borders is all he thinks about. Getting help to as many of the 400 Million People in india forced into poverty by covid as he can. That is the true meaning why i became a chef. That is the reason that you were given all this training, to be that one to understand hunger so deeply. And then do something about it. Find a solution. There is always a solution. Reporter leveraging his fame back home as a michelin starred chef, author, film director and entrepreneur, he started feed india. Did you have any idea the size of the undertaking when you got started . Do you think anyone could envision the magnitude of this pandemic in the beginning . Reporter hes assembled a coalition of food producers, distributors, even bureaucrats. We want 100,000 cases of rice. Okay, sir, its coming here. Reporter and from half a world away mobilized an army. I put satellite kitchens together in six hours and we had the food on the trucks in eight hours. Thank you. Reporter feed india has provid provided 50 million meals so far. 50 million meals. Reporter thats an extraordinary number. Theyre served in shelters, orphanages and gas stations on roads where people are walking to work. You are 7,000 miles from where you grew up. Its 9. 5 hours time difference. How can you manage the logistics when youre so far away . This is my mission, and i am not moving my eyes off anything. The lanterns were done very creatively. Reporter for now khanna has put the parts of his cooking empire on hold with the voice of his mother always on his ear. Everything you ever sold or got award, everything belongs to every Single Person in this country. You just took it and sold it to the world, so dont give me this excuse that this is not your problem. Reporter so your mom is reminding you you have an obligation to do this. Duty. She said it is a duty to feed others. Reporter he is seeking to nourish on a grander scale, showing the stomachs of millions in india, as well as his own soul here in new york. Youve written dozens of cookbooks, cooked for president s. Youve produced a movie. Where does this effort rank for you in at 111 years old, Lawrence Brooks is americas oldest living veteran of world war ii. He got a surprise Birthday Gift that will make this thanksgiving all the more special. Jamie wax has his story. Reporter after more than a century, you might think Lawrence Brooks had gotten just about every kind of birthday present imaginable. Happy birthday to you reporter but at americas oldest world war ii vet, this year came with an unexpected gift, which came with a call from louisiana governor john bel edwards. Right before he hung up, he said, let me know if theres anything i can do for you. You said my roof is leaking. My roof is leaking. This is a lesson in taking an opportunity. Yeah, yeah. There was vegetation growing out of the existing roof. There was obviously deficient framing. Reporter Kevin Griffin and jason engels were part of a louisianabased team tapped by the Governors Office to help Lawrence Brooks fix shotty repair work done after hurricane katrina. Doz dozens of volunteers replaced the roof, no questions asked. The governors words were fix the home and roof as if it were your own, and thats what we did. Brooks wuas drafted into the Second World War in the then still segregated u. S. Army. Brooks served overseas with the predominantly africanamerican 91st engineer battalion in places like australia and new guinea. He took a job as the units cook. When i was coming up, i used to watch my mother. My mother would show me the difference in our cooking. They got us together and it sent me to Cooking School for about six weeks. What did it do you to be able to give back to a man like that . It kind of makes you reevaluate yourself. Volunteering on Something Like this gives you purpose. Surviving not only the war but be the spanish flu pandemic of 1918 as well, Lawrence Brooks brings us perspective t to the current year. Certainly one of the craziest years youve lived through in your 111 years. What are you thankful for . Thankful for my wife, my daughter, thank god for everything. Reporter jamie wax, new orleans. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. Be sure to check back later for cbs this morning. Reporting from the nations capitol. Im kris van cleave. Its 24th, 2020. This is the cbs morning news. Formal transition. Three weeks after the election the Trump Administration finally clears the way for president elect bidens transition to officially begin. Mr. Bidens next move and what President Trump is saying about the process. Taking on covid. Theres new hope as drug makers race to find a vaccine. How the latest proposed treatment could be a game changer. Recall alert. Millions of gm vehicles could be posing a major danger on the road. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im