She was diagnosed with COVID-19 before vaccines were available and is still experiencing symptoms. “I never got over any of my symptoms,” she said, describing them as dizziness, fever, loss of taste, pounding heartbeat and fatigue.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – Ka’trina Smith was diagnosed with COVID-19 before vaccines were available and is still experiencing symptoms., describing them as dizziness, fever, loss of taste, pounding heartbeat and fatigue.“Nobody could tell me anything was wrong,” the 39-year-old medical assistant said. “They’d say, ‘Well, it could be something from COVID.’”
It turns out Smith’s not alone. It’s been estimated as much as 10% of symptomatic COVID-19 patients experience what Smith has endured.“It’s the nature of what we do in medicine is to understand why,” said Dr. David Kaminsky, who is leading a COVID long-hauler study at the University of Vermont. “So, when people are recovering from COVID, you expect them to fully recover, and they’re not.
The nonprofit Mayo Clinic’s COVID Activity Rehabilitation Program is part of a broad range of offerings she’s found there to help her recovery. She and her husband went to the clinic in January and will return in April. “I can connect with all of these people,” Smith said. “I’ve talked to some of them, and they have no idea what’s going on and they are looking for answers. I was just like, talk to your doctor. You have to advocate for yourself.”
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