LONDON - Until March 19 this year, Felicity Callard, a 49-year-old British university professor and lecturer, was fit, active and strong. Now, she says, she's exhausted, frail and scared.
Back in March, she says, she felt more individual control over her health. She was reassured in part by messages that the vast majority of cases are mild, and that good infection control, hand hygiene and social distancing would reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19. Now, however, she feels as though"the threat is everywhere."
And for many, the anxiety, depression and dread are at least as debilitating as the physical frailties. According to LongCovidSOS, data from a symptom tracker app devised by King's College London scientists shows that 10 percent of COVID-19 patients are still unwell after three weeks, and up to 5 percent may continue to be sick for months."Mentally, you feel abandoned," said Morena Colombi, a 59-year-old from Truccazzano in the Italian province of Milan who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in February and is still suffering symptoms."Even the doctors don't know how to help you.
"For most illnesses we have an understanding about what will happen first, what will happen next, and what to expect," she said."The problem is that the symptoms come, then seem to be abating, but then they come back again."
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