![]() Thousands echo her story in online COVID-19 support groups. "Everybody talks about a binary situation, you either get it mild and recover quickly, or you get really sick and wind up in the ICU," says Akrami, who falls into neither category. She's had just 3 weeks since March when her body temperature was normal. But rather than ebb with time, Akrami's symptoms waxed and waned without ever going away. For weeks, she struggled to heal at home. Her early symptoms were textbook for COVID-19: a fever and cough, followed by shortness of breath, chest pain, and extreme fatigue. Now, "My physical activity is bed to couch, maybe couch to kitchen." "I used to go to the gym three times a week," Akrami says. At University College London (UCL), Akrami's students probe how the brain organizes memories to support learning, but at home, she struggles to think clearly and battles joint and muscle pain. ![]() ![]() Life for the 38-year-old is a pale shadow of what it was before 17 March, the day she first experienced symptoms of the novel coronavirus. Science' s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Īthena Akrami's neuroscience lab reopened last month without her. ![]()
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