Long Covid Is Not Rare. It’s a Health Crisis.
Lingering symptoms from the coronavirus may turn out to be one of the largest mass disabling events in modern history.
By Fiona Lowenstein and Hannah Davis
Fiona Lowenstein is a journalist and the founder of the health justice organization Body Politic. Hannah Davis is an artist, researcher and founding member of Body Politic’s research partner, the Patient-Led Research Collaborative.
March 17, 2021
CreditCredit.Illustration By Arsh Raziuddin/the New York Times; Photograph By Getty Images
Both of us developed Covid-19 last March in New York. We didn’t know each other at the time, but we had much in common: We didn’t imagine our symptoms would last for more than a couple of weeks. We were young and otherwise healthy, and were told we should recover easily.
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