Gabriela Ochoa Perez was a healthy 20-year-old before getting sick with COVID-19. Nearly four months later she still has to use an oxygen tank. She's one of many 'long-haulers' who experience symptoms for months.
A couple of weeks of suffering and most COVID-19 patients are on their way to recovery. The fever breaks. The breathing improves. Food even tastes like food again.Gabriela Ochoa Perez had no reason to think a term like that would ever apply to her. She was a healthy, energetic 20-year-old, born and raised in Colombia, pursuing her dream of being an actor in New York. When she first tested positive for the novel coronavirus on April 17, her symptoms were all the familiar ones.
People kept saying: “Be patient,” and she tried to be. “But there is only so much one can take. I just wish I knew what was going on.”As they try to unwind this brand-new virus, many mysteries remain. Why are certain people asymptomatic? Do they have fiercer immune systems or are they lucky in some other way? Why is the virus fatal to some otherwise healthy people? While many COVID-19 deaths are predictable —the old, the obese, the severely preconditioned — quite a few aren’t.
Can you get it twice or three times? No one knows. How long do the antibodies last? No one knows. How much protection do they provide? No one knows. How much help will a vaccine really be? Again, no one knows. Also see: Dr. Fauci outlines 3 ways U.S. can emulate South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand — and control coronavirus spread
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