CHICAGO - When Covid-19 hit in 2020, Ghenya Grondin of Waltham, Massachusetts, was a postpartum doula - a person charged with helping young couples navigate the first weeks of their newborn child's life at home. Grondin, now aged 44, was infected with SARS-CoV-2 in mid-March of that year - before there were tests, before social distancing or masks, and many...
Ghenya Grondin, who first was sick with Covid-19 in March 2020 and has had long COVID ever since, rests on the couch while her five year-old son Theo runs around at their home in Waltham, Massachusetts, US, on Dec 16, 2022.CHICAGO - When Covid-19 hit in 2020, Ghenya Grondin of Waltham, Massachusetts, was a postpartum doula - a person charged with helping young couples navigate the first weeks of their newborn child's life at home.
Three years later, at least 65 million people worldwide are estimated to have long Covid, according to an evidence review published last month in Nature Reviews Microbiology. More than 200 symptoms have been linked to the syndrome - including extreme fatigue, difficulty thinking, headaches, dizziness when standing, sleep problems, chest pain, blood clots, immune dysregulation, and even diabetes.
An analysis of thousands of health records by the Recover trial found that non-Hispanic white women in wealthier areas were more likely than others to have a long Covid diagnosis. Researchers said that likely reflected disparities in access to healthcare, and suggests that many cases of long Covid among people of color are not being diagnosed.
Leading theories of the root causes of long Covid include the virus or viral proteins remaining in the tissues of some individuals; the infection causing an autoimmune response; or the virus reactivating latent viruses, leading to inflammation that damages tissue. Frustrated by the lack of answers from a list of 10 specialists she has seen, Porter has explored alternative medicine. "It has opened me up to other remedies," she said.
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