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Ty Godwin poses for a self portrait. He s had COVID-19 symptoms for a year. Ty Godwin has felt like he has COVID-19, shortness of breath, malaise, fevers, headaches and fatigue for the last year. He’s a long hauler, part of a growing number of people who experience what’s known as long COVID or post-acute COVID-19 syndrome. “I was a marathon runner and a triathlete before this,” he said. “I ve had nights where I wake up out of breath.” In January, he took a medical leave of absence from work to try to get better. In March, he’ll travel to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to see if doctors there can help him. ....
Special to the Daily After catching the coronavirus last March, Dana Gosnell figured she’d be feeling better by now, not worse. Instead, she said she finds herself still facing a confusing and scary array of symptoms. Gosnell, who lives in Vail, said she was in bed for about 10 days with her initial COVID-19 infection. She had headaches and body aches and “felt crappy,” but started to recover. That changed in early June, when a host of strange symptoms and health problems surfaced and have persisted to this day. Gosnell, hoping to help others by sharing her story, said she has had difficulty breathing, fatigue, dizziness, a thick mental fog, headaches, neck and shoulder pain, even sight problems, mouth ulcers and heart troubles, and is “starting to freak out a bit.” ....
People reported fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, shortness of breath and more, the county epidemiologist said. Author: Noel Brennan Updated: 6:41 PM MST January 12, 2021 PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. Before Pitkin County s board of health voted Monday to close indoor dining and move the county to Level Red status on the state s COVID-19 dial, health leaders let data do the talking. “Fifty percent of people in Pitkin County who have tested positive continue to have these long-term, ongoing, lingering effects of [COVID-19], said Jordana Sabella with Pitkin County Public Health. Sabella gave a presentation of staff recommendations to the board of health before members voted unanimously to pass new COVID-19 restrictions in the county. ....
Amazon Alexander Tingle, director of technology, media, and telecom investment banking, UBS Investment Banking Tingle s partner, who is also a banker, once recommended he read A Little Life, the haunting, critically acclaimed novel by Hanya Yanagihara that was published in 2015 and centers on ambitious young men who move to New York City. I loved it, Tingle said, admitting with a laugh that he s not the most avid reader, but A Little Life has stuck with him and not only because it s set in New York, where he s now building his career. One of the central characters, a successful go-getter, is struggling with his mental health throughout the story. For Tingle, he was inspired by that character s portrayal and brought to mind mental health-related stigmas that persist in some workplaces, especially for people in cutthroat positions. ....