What People With Long COVID Want Their Bosses And Colleagues To Know
Even though long-term COVID symptoms are not always visible, they are very real and costly. It’s been almost a year since Mae Smith got COVID-19, and she still experiences symptoms including crushing fatigue and a brain fog that makes it hard to think. Smith was a policy director for a New York City social service agency when she first contracted COVID-19, and continued working despite lingering flulike symptoms last summer. Then she got rapidly worse in the fall. “I got migraines every single day. That’s when the brain fog started,” she said. “Then it just got way, way too hard.”...