coronavirus long-hauler

Scientists are learning more about how long COVID affects the brain.

Health & Safety
Science

Pain, fatigue, fuzzy thinking: How long COVID disrupts the brain

5:00am November 13, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

The neurological symptoms of COVID can persist for years after an infection. Scientists are just beginning to understand why.

Headaches, lung issues and ongoing, debilitating fatigue are just a few of the symptoms plaguing some "long hauler" COVID-19 patients for months or more after the initial fever and acute symptoms recede.

Economy
Health & Safety

Hey, COVID-19 Long-Haulers: Take Care In Shopping For Health Insurance

3:48pm December 02, 2020

by Julie Appleby

Anyone with lingering effects of COVID-19 should be extra careful in picking a 2021 health plan, specialists say. You now have a "pre-existing condition" that could increase medical expenses in 2021.

Karla Monterroso says after going to Alameda Hospital in May with a very accelerated heart rate, very low blood pressure and cycling oxygen levels, her entire experience was one of being punished for being 'insubordinate.'

Health & Safety

'All You Want Is To Be Believed': Sick With COVID-19 And Facing Racial Bias In The ER

5:01am October 21, 2020

by April Dembosky

When a Latina woman went to a Bay Area hospital, a doctor was dismissive of her COVID symptoms. Is unconscious bias one reason people of color are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus?