When Janelle and her family tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2020, she never expected that she and her son, Graden, would suffer from a wide array of long-haul complications.
The second time Lillian Downs got COVID-19, she came to National Jewish Health. When infectious disease expert Jared Eddy, MD, saw Lillian before an antibody infusion, he realized that she needed a more extensive evaluation.
Sophia Laderman's long COVID symptoms had become so severe that she could hardly stand up without blacking out. She crawled from room to room, and her husband carried her up the stairs of their Denver-area home. “I couldn’t take care of myself,” said Laderman. “At times I worried that I was going to die.”
College-bound Annalise Schwecke knew a bout with long COVID was always possible. “It was on our minds because my family has a lot of autoimmune disorders. We were already concerned about getting long COVID, and we tried really hard not to get COVID in general,” she recalled.