As the pandemic ebbs, long-haul Covid still drains patients and confounds doctors

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Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it

Many long haulers report fatigue, brain fog, and a range of other symptoms for months after their infection.
Many long haulers report fatigue, brain fog, and a range of other symptoms for months after their infection.Photograph: VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images

Eric BergerSun 29 May 2022 05.00 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/29/long-covid-causes-how-many-treatment

Emily Caffee, a physical therapist and lifelong athlete, cut her primary care provider slack for suggesting an antidepressant when she complained of fatigue, body aches and brain fog in the months after she became sick with Covid-19 in March 2020.

“She did a very thorough medical workup, and a lot of the lab values came back ‘normal’,” said Caffee, a 36-year-old Chicago resident. “We didn’t have very much to go off of in those early days. I think now we have so much more information” about long Covid, which was doctors’ eventual diagnosis for Caffee.

While there has indeed been significant…

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