Year in Review Health & Medicine

2022 was the year long COVID couldn’t be ignored

Doctors are still looking for ways to treat the lingering symptoms 

an illustration showing a woman falling. She is chained to a huge spikey red COVID-19 virus. Other viruses around her are also chained to falling people.

Millions of people are feeling the weight of long COVID.

KATTY HUERTAS

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

This year, the world had to face the growing burden of long COVID. A tidal wave of people with lingering symptoms — some mild, some profoundly disabling — commanded attention.