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Many COVID-19 survivors suffer months of post-viral symptoms: Tough new realities — and a personal journey

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Lea Lane is a US travel writer who hasn’t left her home in over four months, except for medical reasons. Lea gives her own personal account of having coronavirus and the longer term effects it is having on her

"Trump has claimed that 99% of cases of COVID-19 are 'totally harmless.' His take is 'live with it.' Many thousands of COVID-19 survivors are unfortunately doing just that, suffering strange, debilitating symptoms that come and go for months after first coming down with the novel virus. Unfortunately we are discovering that the disease can not only be deadly, but chronic — or as sufferers call it, 'long-haul.'

Many COVID-19 survivors suffer months of post-viral symptoms: Tough new realities — and a personal j… https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2020/07/16/many-covid-19-survivors-suffer-months-of-post-viral-…

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