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Long-haul COVID-19 study participant says internal tremors feel like an 'earthquake' inside her body

The Survivor Corps support network has gathered data from more than 700 patients coping with post-COVID symptoms such as tremors, vibrations, debilitating pain and mental decline.
Liza Fisher, a participant in the COVID-19 long-hauler study. (Courtesy)

A new study of long COVID-19 finds a disturbing cluster of symptoms well after infection: tremors, vibrations, debilitating pain and mental decline.

Screenwriter Heidi Ferrer died by suicide in the fall after a year-long battle with the symptoms. Her husband Nick Guthe spoke to Here & Now about her battle with the illness.

After watching his wife suffer, Guthe went on to partner with the Survivor Corps support network, where he and others gathered data from more than 700 patients coping with the same types of post-COVID symptoms.

Yale cardiologist has been of COVID-19. He says he’d been hearing about devastating symptoms including bodies

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