Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID mystery
2021-03-15 09:08:22 source:The Associated Press
March 14, 2021
There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with some answers.
The Texas woman is one of thousands of self-described long-haulers, patients with symptoms that linger or develop out of the blue months after they first became infected with coronavirus. Hers first arrived March 11, 2020.
The condition affects an uncertain number of survivors in a baffling variety of ways.
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