LONG AFTER COVID
SOME would say she’s one of the lucky ones. She didn’t end up in hospital or on a ventilator. She didn’t die. But more than two years after her bout with Covid-19, she’s still battling lingering symptoms. When she contracted the virus in May 2020, Nita Collins* of Cape Town was sick for a few weeks and experienced “indescribable exhaustion”.
Her symptoms included headache; shortness of breath; joint pain and brain fog and she also developed pneumonitis, an inflammation of the lung tissue.
Once the worst of it was over, she slowly eased back into her normal routine and believed she was on the mend. But the fatigue and joint pain persisted, and she knew something was seriously wrong.
