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“I woke up suddenly feeling incredibly exhausted, dizzy. My heart rate was 135 beats per minute standing, 140-150 walking,” says the 35-year-old, a data scientist from New York. “I couldn’t think straight and struggled to code on my laptop.”
Symptoms of long COVID include breathlessness, heart palpitations, gastrointestinal problems, extreme fatigue and insomnia.Others suffer lasting neurological and cognitive effects that are less visible, but equally disabling. Many suffer from depression or anxiety or “brain fog,” struggling with memory, concentration and making decisions.Article content
Twycross was unable to return to her job and has had to hire an assistant to help her with the book she is editing. “I can’t do attention to detail so I employed someone to check my chapters and I’m so behind,” she says.seen in the U.S. and U.K., where many older workers are looking to work fewer hours or have left the workforce completely. One study by the Brookings Institution in January speculated that long COVID could potentially account for upwards of 15 per cent of the 10.
Meanwhile, U.K. labour market data show a rise of some 200,000 since the start of the pandemic in the number of people who are not working or job-seeking because of long-term ill health; and a quarter of U.K. companies say long COVID is one of the main causes of long-term staff absence.Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters
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