These people have been sick with coronavirus for more than 60 days.

[SoonerPride]

This is terrifying and mystifying.

Recommended read. Should be in front of the paywall since it’s coronavirus coverage.

It started for Melanie Montano with a tightness in her chest, almost like someone was sitting on top of her. It was March 15, and she was sweating but freezing cold. And she had a strange “pins-and-needles” sensation on the back of her legs.

“It was as if I woke up in a totally different body,” she recalled.

Over the following weeks, Montano, 32, developed a fever, cough, stomach problems, and lost her sense of taste and smell like other sufferers of the novel coronavirus. Unlike most of them, though, her symptoms never went away. They kept coming and going in waves like a roller coaster that has kept her bed-bound for 89 days straight — through school shutdowns, shelter-in-place orders, protests over those restrictions, and now, state reopenings.

Those infected with the coronavirus are urged to self-quarantine for 14 days, partly based on the idea that symptoms usually last about that long. While the majority of people with mild illness recover completely in that time, doctors say they’re seeing a small percentage like Montano who remain sick for many weeks, or even months.

Much longer read here...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/11/coronavirus-chronic/?tid=a_classic-iphone&no_nav=true&p9w22b2p=b2p22p9w00098

[Sugarcoated]

1. I'd love to read it

but it's not letting me.

[SoonerPride]

3. Check your inbox.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. Wish I could read it too.

I heard about the long time sick phenomenon a while ago, I wonder if they found out anything new.

[SoonerPride]

7. Hello

[jmg257]

2. My SIL is an ICU nurse in local hospital. People on vents

For 40-50 days.

Not good.

[SoonerPride]

4. That is terrifying.

I know a lot of people think this is just a danger for people over age 70.

That's crazy talk.

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5. k&r for visibility