{"id":473,"date":"2020-06-06T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=473"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T01:42:46","slug":"thousands-who-got-covid-19-in-march-are-still-sick-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/06\/thousands-who-got-covid-19-in-march-are-still-sick-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Who Got COVID-19 in March Are Still Sick &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson instated stringent social-distancing measures to halt the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, LeClerc, a Glasgow-based journalist, arrived home feeling shivery and flushed. Over the next few days, she developed a cough, chest pain, aching joints, and a prickling sensation on her skin. After a week of bed rest, she started improving. But on day 12, every old symptom returned, amplified and with reinforcements: She spiked an intermittent fever, lost her sense of taste and smell, and struggled to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>To hear more feature stories, get the Audm iPhone app.<\/p>\n<p>When I spoke with LeClerc on day 66, she was still experiencing waves of symptoms. \u201cBefore this, I was a fit, healthy 32-year-old,\u201d she said. \u201cNow I\u2019ve been reduced to not being able to stand up in the shower without feeling fatigued. I\u2019ve tried going to the supermarket and I\u2019m in bed for days afterwards. It\u2019s like nothing I\u2019ve ever experienced before.\u201d Despite her best efforts, LeClerc has not been able to get a test, but \u201cevery doctor I\u2019ve spoken to says there\u2019s no shadow of a doubt that this has been COVID,\u201d she said. Today is day 80.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/06\/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months\/612679\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Thousands Who Got COVID-19 in March Are Still Sick &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson instated stringent social-distancing measures to halt the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, LeClerc, a Glasgow-based journalist, arrived home feeling shivery and flushed. Over the next few days, she developed a cough, chest pain, aching joints, and a prickling sensation on her skin. After a week of bed rest, she started improving. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/06\/thousands-who-got-covid-19-in-march-are-still-sick-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}