The Painful Lies About Long Covid
I made an attempt to reply to the atrocious hack piece by Alan Levinovitz’ online at Wired the day it came out on Monday, but everything hurt. I had my second (CT) scan as part of a prerequisite for my stage IV cancer treatment at UC Health in Denver. Laying on the hard scan bed after the weekend “did me in”—my pelvis, lower back, kidney-area ribs and shoulder all hurt too much. I took notes from the Apple News article on the sofa—extra strength Tylenol didn’t cut the pain, and it was too early to take my nighttime pain medication. Before I discuss the Wired piece, I think it’s important to understand my story as I’m one of the 20-30M Americans afflicted with Long Covid—my case goes back to international travel in the first quarter of the pandemic in 2020. I thought the Jeff Wise (“Long Covid Comes Into the Light” in Slate Magazine ) and Natalie Shure (“We Might Have Long Covid All Wrong,” in The New Republic ) hack pieces telling us that Long Covid was fiction was behind ...
