The CDC estimates 1 in 5 Americans who have had COVID have at least one lingering symptom. One woman shares how her life has changed with long COVID.
Many people have already moved beyond the pandemic. But as the COVID-19 public health emergency ends Thursday, those with long COVID, like Marjorie Roberts, may never be able to leave the virus behind."I'm still dealing with what we call brain fog. I still have the COVID crashes. That's when you just don't know — all of a sudden, you just start feeling like blah," she says in her home outside Atlanta.
Not only did COVID-19 damage her lungs, but her medical records show lesions on her liver and one of her kidneys. Roberts has multiple doctor's appointments every month. She's offered support to others living with long COVID as a patient representative with the RECOVER initiative. The effort is using more than $1 billion from Congress to better understand and treat long COVID.
"They really don't know," she says."They're trying to figure it out, but they don't know. There is a lot that they don't know."
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