Doctors scramble to understand long Covid, but causes and prognosis are elusive – News-Medical.Net

One night in March 2020, Joy Wu felt like her heart was going to explode. She tried to get up and fell down. She didn’t recognize friends’ names in her list of phone contacts. Remembering how to dial 9-1-1 took “quite a bit of time,” she recalled recently.
Wu, 38, didn’t have a fever, cough or sore throat — the symptoms most associated with Covid-19 at the time — so doctors at the hospital told her she was having a panic attack. But later she developed those symptoms, along with difficulty breathing,…

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