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"Doctors who contracted COVID, and thought the symptoms would be over in weeks, tell of their continuing pain, exhaustion and – sometimes – struggle to be believed"
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"I am living with Long COVID. I am experiencing multi-dimensional and episodic disability, across all dimensions of disability. My primary symptom is fatigue & post-exertion malaise. Along with other symptoms. I want to describe the nature & extent of disability I experience."
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“I still have some scarring on my lungs, and I can’t exercise like I used to. Before COVID, I could run for miles. Earlier [in September], I finally got to the point where I could run one mile without stopping,” he said
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"Roweena Russel, 45, is suffering from chest pains, memory loss and constant fatigue six months after contracting coronavirus"
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"In early March, Maria Diaz became one of the first New Yorkers known to have contracted COVID-19. Diaz, who teaches at Brooklyn’s Poly Prep Country Day School, left work on March 3 with a 105-degree fever. Well into the summer, she reported suffering fevers every few days, as well as chronic fatigue."
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Miles wrote about his experience in an essay for Adventure Journal and compared it to a thru-hike across the unknown: "Some days I'm northbound, some days I'm southbound. Other days, I walk to hell and back."
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“We’ve all got something that we want to be getting on with, nobody wants to be sat at home watching telly and feeling that their life is just passing them by.”
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"The focus of healthcare: I have been fortunate to have had positive experiences with health care professionals throughout this illness. They have been attentive, patient even when I have been anxious myself, and open to what I tell them I am going through."
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"Adina Gerver, 41, of Manhattan has been dealing with long-term fatigue, chest pain and hair loss since she caught COVID-19 in late March. “I’m scared that this will be the thing that dogs me for the rest of my life,” Gerver said."
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"Monique Jackson believes she caught Covid-19 early in the pandemic and nearly six months later she's still unwell. One of thousands in this position, she has been keeping an illustrated diary about her symptoms and her vain attempts to get treatment."