We need to talk about Long Covid
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 6 months
- Published
- Jan 2024
Summary
Credits radical rest, pacing and time alone. Peter Geoghegan was ill 6mo with severe long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Journalist; subsisted on soup and Simpsons reruns while resting.
This summary was assembled from the coded record rather than written from a full reading of the page, so it is short. The original has the detail.
What they credit
Credits Pacing, Radical rest, Time / spontaneous, Pacing and the energy envelope, Radical rest, Time and spontaneous remission.
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