Long COVID survivor reflects on struggles 5 years after pandemic’s surge
Dr. John Baratta, founder and medical director at UNC at Chapel Hill’s COVID Recovery Clinic, told Channel 9 the length of long COVID differs from person to person. “For some people, it is a few months. For others, it is one or a few years. And for others, I unfortunately expect it will be a lifelong condition.”
Long COVID survivor still fighting symptoms 5 years after start of pandemic
A long COVID survivor is still recovering five years after the pandemic first swept across the world. Brian Jaffe has pulmonary rehab twice a week for at least an hour with his vitals always monitored and his oxygen is a permanent appendage.
Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life
Mark Hammersley is a survivor. It was October 2020 and the country was in the grip of the second wave of the COVID pandemic. The image of Mark wearing a breathing mask attached by a tube to a CPAP machine will stay with me for a very long time.
The struggles of living with long Covid five years after the start of the pandemic
Five years since Covid was declared a global pandemic, much has changed—especially for millions of Americans still battling long Covid. NBC News' Dr. John Torres reflects on the national emergency and speaks with Chimére Sweeney,
Long COVID survivor still fighting symptoms 5 years later
Brian Jaffe was a health care worker in what he now calls a "hornet's nest" of COVID exposure. I guess this was inevitable. The woman who went viral for her warm interaction with Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s address to Congress says she was not “flirting” with the billionaire and said the scrutiny of her has been “awful.
5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
They're pushing for more funding to find effective treatments. Researchers are finally starting to make headway but have a way to go.
Real-life 'Rocky': COVID survivor working hard after 2021 death-defying 7-month hospital stay
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COVID-19 survivor visits Colorado ICU team that gave him a second chance at life
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I'm a long COVID researcher—and I have long COVID
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I was an incarcerated nursing assistant during Covid. This is what I saw
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King’s Lynn hospital marks five years since the start of the pandemic with a gesture of remembrance and reflection
People are being invited to tie a yellow ribbon on hospital railings to remember those who have lost their lives since the ...