June 20, 2024

Living with long Covid — the symptoms and the fears

Millions of people around the world are living with long Covid, a medically perplexing, and potentially debilitating, condition. Rachel Hall-Clifford is one of them. As a medical anthropologist, she's well suited to understanding long Covid. But as a mother, wife, friend, researcher, and teacher, it drags her down, just as it does so many others.

As she wrote in her First Opinion essay, "Long Covid feels like a gun to my head," her initial infection in January 2022 "wasn't scary: I had fever, aches, and chills for about four days. My initial Covid aches and pains were nothing in comparison to when I had dengue fever, known as 'bone break fever,' while working in Guatemala's remote mountains."

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