'Hitting a fog bank': Oregon's long COVID patients still struggling in the wake of the pandemic

We spoke with two people who have had to give up the activities they loved, saddled with chronic fatigue and brain fog long after infection.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Oregon, nearly a million people have become sick with the virus. For most people, that sickness was merely unpleasant for a time — and then it passed relatively quickly. But for others, catching the virus was only the beginning.

“Long COVID-19,” symptoms that stick around 3 months or more after infection, still torments tens of thousands of people in Oregon. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 15 million Americans currently

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