Nearly three years into the Covid pandemic, people who have long Covid are still looking for answers. Now, finally, they have some. With the publication of “The Long Covid Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next,” a group of patients have supplied what science and the medical profession could not […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and disability: What happens if you cannot work?
By VIRGINIA JEFFRIES and JEANNE PINDER After two weeks out sick with Covid, an executive in Oregon returned to work. While she still had a cough, she and her doctor both believed the worst was behind her. “There wasn’t a conversation about Covid lingering or continuing,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It was […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and disability: A year later, and millions of cases later, patients struggle for disability
J., a long Covid patient from the Midwest, is still suffering extreme symptoms more than a year later — tachycardia, extreme fatigue and other symptoms. Walking the dog around the block, she said, raised her heart rate to 212 beats per minute. Like many other Americans with office jobs, she has been working remotely. Yet […]
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) and disability: How to do it, with a disability specialist who has gone through it herself
Meet Alison Sbrana, a 27-year-old moderator for the support group Body Politic and former care coordinator living in Colorado. Sbrana has myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, a chronic, disabling condition that often afflicts people after an acute viral infection. Last week, we talked to her via video conference about navigating Covid-19 and applying for disability. Our […]
