Deborah Wood spent her 69th birthday Monday two weeks ago alone in her quiet Fairfield home, wincing through the stabbing pains in her stomach, lungs and heart. For the last year and a half, she’s spent most of her nights like this.
This is how COVID-19 has left her.
But Deborah is not alone. The condition she has in COVID Long Haulers and is something new. Prior to recently, physicians didn’t even think people becoming “Long Haulers” was even possible.