Millions of Americans have long COVID. Many of them are no longer working – By Andrea Hsu (NPR) / July 31, 2022
More than two years after Georgia Linders first got sick with COVID, her heart still races at random times.
She’s often exhausted. She can’t digest certain foods.
Most days, she runs a fever, and when her temperature gets up past a certain point, her brain feels like goo, she says.
These are commonly reported symptoms of long COVID.
Linders really noticed problems with her brain when she returned to work in the spring and summer of 2020. Her job required her to be on phone calls all day, coordinating with health clinics that service the military. It was a lot of multitasking, something she excelled at before COVID.
After COVID, the brain fog and fatigue slowed her down immensely. In the fall of 2020, she was put on probation. After 30 days, she thought her performance had improved. She’d certainly felt busy.
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