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dr. amy blackstone on the long covid experience

24 Jan 2023, Bangor Daily News

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

Long COVID is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed.


by Amy Blackstone

 

In March 2020, I boarded a flight bound for Iowa. The next morning, I awoke to news that the university where I was speaking was closing due to COVID-19. My lecture that evening would be its final public event. I contracted COVID-19 soon after and have been suffering from long COVID ever since.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 13 adults in the U.S. have long COVID, an illness lasting months to years after contracting COVID-19. Though we’ve had years to adjust, Maine, like the rest of the nation, remains ill equipped to combat long COVID and its effects.


Full story at link.

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

Post-Covid-19 symptoms, who is affected, what research is being done to understand long Covid

 

As time passes since the start of the pandemic, more research is being done about the long-term effects of Covid-19. A growing number of people suffer from symptoms that linger well past the period of active Covid: neurological problems, respiratory issues, digestive trouble, and other significant effects. We’ll talk with medical experts about what studies are revealing about long-haul Covid, and what is still unknown.


Panelists:
Dr. Ingrid Bassett, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; infectious disease physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Clifford Rosen, director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research at MaineHealth; principal investigator for MaineHealth RECOVER site; internal medicine specialist


VIP Caller:
Amy Blackstone, professor, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Department of Sociology, University of Maine; author, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence; she has been dealing with long Covid symptoms since 2020


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6 March 2022, Bangor Daily News

4 Oct 2022, Maine Public's Maine Calling

6 March 2022, Bangor Daily News

University of Maine professor and author Amy Blackstone is still recovering from nearly two years of

2 years into long COVID, a UMaine professor feels like she's 'been buried alive'


by Emily  Burnham


After giving a talk on March 11, 2020, at Iowa State University, University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone returned to her hotel room with a tickle in her throat.


The next day, she flew to her home state of Minnesota on a planned trip to visit friends and family, just as the entire country started to shut down as the COVID-19 pandemic began its deadly march across the U.S.


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