A life derailed by long COVID - Virginia Mercury
If you see me out in the world, I may look normal, but just know I’m still suffering, as are many others experiencing long COVID
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If you see me out in the world, I may look normal, but just know I’m still suffering, as are many others experiencing long COVID
Millions of parents are living with long COVID, leaving them to try their best to balance childrearing with chronic illness.
Scripps News talked to a dozen people with long-term COVID symptoms about their current experience and their hope for the future.
A version of this article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury. On October 22, 2020, friends and family were at the intersection of Jahnke and German School roads on Richmond’s Southside to mourn the loss of 16-year-old Aajah Rosemond, who was killed by a driver while walking to the store. According to police, a collision with a GMC Yukon sent a roughly 6,000 pound Nissan Titan spiraling up and onto the sidewalk, fatally striking the teenager. The evening news tells such tales with disturbing regularity, a product of Virginia’s rapidly rising pedestrian death rate. However, what’s beh...