What we know — and what we still need to learn — about long COVID – CBC

Diagnosing long COVID can be difficult given the lack of research on the condition

Feb 15, 2022

Jonah McGarva has been struggling with long COVID since he was first infected in March 2020.

“It’s almost like I can kind of predict how the day is going to go when I wake up in the morning,” says the Burnaby resident.

“I typically know I have a window of about two to four hours after I wake up where I can take a shower, I can eat, I can talk on the phone for maybe a half-hour, or I can answer a couple of emails,” says McGarva, the co-founder and director of Long COVID Canada, a patient advocacy group.

“But then I have to go back to bed. I cannot function. And it’s not even a question of going to sleep. It’s just I can’t even sit up straight, like I’m out of breath. I feel like I’m running a marathon while I’m sitting in my office chair.”

What we know — and what we still need to learn — about long COVID – CBC

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