Emerging research suggests that a small portion of people who now live with long Covid may have showed no Covid-19 symptoms at all when they were initially infected – or their symptoms were mild or unusual
While working at a domestic violence nonprofit in Arizona during the height of the Covid-19 summer wave in 2020, Timmer wrote pandemic policies for her workplace, encouraging her colleagues to wear masks and, if they had been exposed to the coronavirus or had symptoms, get tested.
'There is a tsunami coming': Widower warns of Covid 'long haulers' plight 06:56Even though Ferrer did not initially test positive for Covid-19, she had a cytokine panel done at a long Covid clinic in the San Francisco Bay area early last year to look for clues behind her symptoms, searching for inflammation and signs of long Covid.
In the ER, on the day Ferrer died, Guthe said the doctor asked,"'How long has your wife been depressed?' And I said, 'She wasn't depressed. She was in excruciating pain from long Covid.' And he said, 'What's long Covid?' I said, 'You're kidding, right?' And he said, 'No, I don't know what it is.'"Guthe told the doctor to"just Google it.