Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning to unlock a puzzling phenomenon: For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalization, Covid-19 has a devastating second act (wsj.com/articles/docto…).
For many patients “the disease itself is not that bad,” but symptoms like memory-lapses and rapid heart-rate sometimes persist for months. “I haven’t really seen any other illness that affects so many different organ-systems in so many different ways” (wsj.com/articles/docto…).
Zijian Chen of the Mount Sinai Center for Post-Covid Care described colleagues who were energetic, but after getting sick, had trouble getting through the day. He said he has seen up close how Covid-19 still affects their ability to do things they love (wsj.com/articles/docto…).