“There is an urgent need to address long-term symptoms of the coronavirus... hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people worldwide might experience lingering problems that could impede their ability to work and function normally.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/health/covid-long-term-symptoms.html?referringSource=articleShare

“In an inadvertent but stark illustration of the difficulty of the recovery process, two of the four patients scheduled to speak at the meeting were unable to because they had recently been hospitalized. “Those individuals had their acute illness several months ago””

“It’s been a harrowing task and the task and the journey continues...”
“Ms. Smith, who is Black, said it was especially important to inform people in underserved communities that long-term effects are “as real and possible as dying from the virus itself.”

“Hannah Davis, 32, a researcher and artist in Brooklyn, described neurological and cognitive symptoms that began in late March. “I forgot my partner’s name,” she said. “I forgot about sleep. I would regularly pick up a hot pan, burn myself, put it down, & literally do it again.”