{"id":18052,"date":"2021-04-22T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:42:23","slug":"doctors-scramble-to-understand-long-covid-but-causes-and-prognosis-are-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18052","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Scramble to Understand Long Covid, but Causes and Prognosis Are Elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Michelle Andrews and Lydia Zuraw for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

One night in March 2020, Joy Wu felt like her heart was going to explode. She tried to get up and fell down. She didn\u2019t recognize friends\u2019 names in her list of phone contacts. Remembering how to dial 9-1-1 took \u201cquite a bit of time,\u201d she recalled recently.<\/p>\n

Wu, 38, didn\u2019t have a fever, cough or sore throat \u2014 the symptoms most associated with covid-19 at the time \u2014 so doctors at the hospital told her she was having a panic attack. But later she developed those symptoms, along with difficulty breathing, fatigue and neurological issues.<\/p>\n

Wu, of San Carlos, California, believes she had covid \u2014 although, like many others who were unable to get tested early in the pandemic, she never got an official diagnosis. And, she said, its aftereffects continue to plague her.\u00a0 Continue reading the article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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