Long Covid feels like a gun to my head By Rachel Hall-CliffordJune 18, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/long-covid-infectious-disease-expert-personal-story-life-with-no-cure/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9NFKdgcs2pndGeiShj6LJ__XeZFbU9k9fIGIWlH5ctpBMVc5mwmtA7Bh_k51wh1oKaInpLlWhNfJmTupIrdQLFS5cCLg&_hsmi=312000659&utm_content=312000659&utm_source=hs_email Rachel Hall-Clifford has spent her career studying neglected tropical diseases. But in 2022, she got Covid for the first time, and now she has her own neglected disease: long Covid. Hall-Clifford is not easily intimidated — she once talked a Guatemalan street gang out of harming her research team as someone held an assault rifle to their heads during a robbery. But in a new First Opinion essay, she admits that long Covid scares her like nothing else. “This is not a funny story I will tell colleagues over drinks later,” she writes. “I spend a lot of my time lying in the dark (I’m here now, even as I type this) negotiating with god and science to make me — and all of us suffering with long Covid and other post-viral illnesses — better.” Read the essay, and watch out for an interview with Hall-Clifford on the First Opinion Podcast tomorrow. https://open.spotify.com/show/3y7p5nBy5fRV5ixzDRf1HC?si=5e279efcb8e54718&utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8BR4TUAE-n4jYDgHqq4k-o5BEntPArEA3VT79kVHSUVzbQ0ZgZ_losBocT5waX5Q3tLP6KjVnrHAkI55tG-t7jdie3_Q&_hsmi=312000659&utm_content=312000659&utm_source=hs_email&nd=1&dlsi=a5b76988e55f40db