Mara Gay, The New York Times Published: 02 Jan 2021 04:50 PM BdST Updated: 02 Jan 2021 04:50 PM BdST The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) survivor Santiaga Cerrato, 85, who suffers from Alzheimer s disease, bids farewell to fellow resident Antonia Sanchez at the nursing home Centro Casaverde in Navalcarnero, outside Madrid, Spain, Dec 23, 2020. REUTERS
I am one of millions of people still fighting to regain their full health months after surviving COVID-19. But this is not a story about sickness. This is a story about the small army of people who are helping me heal. ); }
There are the pulmonologists, a team of two brilliant, brave women who have treated COVID-19 patients in the ICU throughout the pandemic. One of them is around my age early 30s. “You will get there,” she assured me recently as if she had read my worried mind. Our faces were masked, but I could see the confident smil
Dec. 31, 2020
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I am one of millions of people still fighting to regain their full health months after surviving Covid-19. But this is not a story about sickness. This is a story about the small army of people who are helping me heal.
There are the pulmonologists, a team of two brilliant, brave women who have treated Covid-19 patients in the I.C.U. throughout the pandemic. One of them is around my age early 30s. “You will get there,” she assured me recently, as though she had read my worried mind. Our faces were masked, but I could see the confident smile in her eyes. “It’s just slow,” she said, using profanity that I can’t repeat here but that made me laugh.
Every breath you take: Understanding air pollution and lung health written by Linda Moon ,December 28, 2020
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The 2020 bushfires and COVID-19 drew a national gasp of attention to the importance of clean air, and an organ central to your health and wellbeing: your lungs.
“The first thing we do when we’re born is inhale. The last thing we do is exhale,” says Dr Noah Greenspan, founder of the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation and the Pulmonary Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in New York. It’s a mostly automatic, unconscious action that happens about 22,000 times a day. “Breathing is a thing you take for granted, until you have a problem,” remarks Greenspan, also the author of