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Some North Carolinians have endured COVID and its long-haul aftermath for two harrowing years. A clinic at UNC keeps up with cutting-edge research and tailored therapies in hopes of finding solutions.
Esearchers are studying why vaccination appears to be providing relief from the debilitating symptoms COVID “long-haulers” experience.
Lessons One day in late April, Perdensal Springs took longer than usual getting ready for her job transporting seniors for the nonprofit PACE of the Southern Piedmont. Lately, it’s been little things that get her tangled up: where she put her keys, had she made her lunch, what was her first stop. Prior to this job, Springs had worked in transportation for the Charlotte Housing Authority because she enjoyed helping seniors. But after being out with COVID for two months, working with the residents, some of whom have dementia, is a reminder of her own struggles with confusion an...
Last March, life was good for Cynthia Smudde. Financially independent, the 19-year-old was a supervisor at Starbucks, working her way into their education program to help fund her college tuition. Her dream was to obtain a degree in computer science and work as a software developer for the U.S. Department of Defense. Then COVID-19 spread throughout the United States. Although young and healthy, Smudde was still worried about contracting the disease — not much was known about the virus, and her job involved interacting with the public. “The media kept blasting us with all this scary news, ...