The Burden: Long Covid sufferers’ quality of life close to MS patients

Halfway through Lucy’s* first year at university, where she was studying to be a doctor, she dropped out. For the next two months, she barely left the house. She was almost unable to sit up in bed and couldn’t walk by herself.
In another instance, Renee found herself in the midst of a reelection campaign for Palmerston North City Council when she realised she just couldn’t do it. After delivering a keynote speech at the Pasifika Fusion Festival, her husband carried her to the car. She slept for five days and woke up to find she could no longer walk.