‘After catching Covid I lost all of my hair – now I don’t recognise myself’ Like Pam Goodrum, a growing number of people are experiencing alopecia symptoms in the months after being infected with coronavirus 22 February 2021 • 6:00am 'With alopecia, you want answers but are told there are none because there’s no definitive treatment' Credit: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian When Pam Goodrum came down with the symptoms of Covid-19 last April, she was relieved to come out the other side two weeks later with nothing more than exhaustion and a temporary loss of taste and smell. But, though the immediate threat to her physical health was over, it took a few more months for lesser-known side-effect to emerge.