Aside from the rising death toll, one of the scarier things about this B-word of a pandemic is that the disease caused by a SARS-CoV-2 infection can have lasting effects on the body. And that can be true even for people who initially had mild symptoms or none at all.
Folks who experience this are called “long haulers.” For them, the aftermath of a COVID-19 infection becomes like a chronic illness.
“We need to stop thinking of COVID-19 as something like the flu,” says Natalie Lambert, PhD, associate research professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. “We have to start talking about…
Aside from the rising death toll, one of the scarier things about this B-word of a pandemic is that the disease caused by a SARS-CoV-2 infection can have lasting effects on the body. And that can be true even for people who initially had mild symptoms or none at all.
Folks who experience this are called “long haulers.” For them, the aftermath of a COVID-19 infection becomes like a chronic illness.
“We need to stop thinking of COVID-19 as something like the flu,” says Natalie Lambert, PhD, associate research professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. “We have to start talking about…
