"I woke up first thing in the morning and I felt really hot and out of breath," he said, recalling the morning of March 22, 2020. "I went into the bathroom trying to catch my breath, and I immediately coughed up blood into the sink. ... I ended up in the hospital that day and tested positive for COVID."
Reagan said he spent two months in and out of the hospital last spring, with acute COVID-19.
But for as hard as that was, what he's been through since could be considered just as bad, if not worse: His current symptoms include constant pain in his chest, painful nerve pain in his hands and legs, seizures, tremors, and the loss of vision in one eye.（胸部持续疼痛，手和腿部神经疼痛 ，癫痫发作，震颤和一只眼睛视力丧失。）
"Since then it has been a roller coaster," he said, with ups and downs, new symptoms, a whole series of doctors, medications and tests.
"I realized that I have a lot of damage from COVID and it's changed my life completely," he said. He has not been able to return to anything near the active life he enjoyed before.
Unlike Reagan, when 34-year-old Stephanie Condra got sick with COVID-19 last summer, she didn't have to be hospitalized. Her symptoms were comparatively mild: fatigue, shortness of breath, stomach pain and cramping, and a low- grade fever.
But, after it appeared she had recovered from her acute illness, Condra says she began developing a wide array of health problems that waxed and waned but did not clear up: terrible sinus pain, nausea and loss of appetite, bone-crushing fatigue, dizziness, a burning sensation in her chest, a dry cough, brain fog, confusion, concentration issues and problems with word retrieval.
"My symptoms are constantly evolving. I get the same symptoms again and again, and it's like one will kind of disappear and then others will come up," she explained.
While Condra said she started getting better at the beginning of 2021, she describes her progress as slow and halting. "I'm really only able to function for maybe, tops, like four hours during a day," she said.
ABC报道，研究发现，几个月后，近三分之一的患有“轻度” COVID-19的人仍在抵抗症状
华盛顿大学的研究人员对177人进行实验室确认的SARS-CoV-2感染进行了长达9个月的随访，这是迄今为止最长的随访。 值得注意的是，该组包括150名患有“轻度”疾病且未住院的门诊病人。
30％的受访者表示持续症状。 最常见的是疲劳和气味或味觉丧失。 与生病之前相比，超过30％的受访者表示生活质量较差。 14名参与者（占8％）（包括9名尚未住院的人
）报告说，他们在执行至少一项日常活动（例如日常琐事）方面遇到困难。
"I woke up first thing in the morning and I felt really hot and out of
breath," he said, recalling the morning of March 22, 2020. "I went into the bathroom trying to catch my breath, and I immediately coughed up blood into the sink. ... I ended up in the hospital that day and tested positive for
COVID."
Reagan said he spent two months in and out of the hospital last spring, with acute COVID-19.
But for as hard as that was, what he's been through since could be
considered just as bad, if not worse: His current symptoms include constant pain in his chest, painful nerve pain in his hands and legs, seizures,
tremors, and the loss of vision in one eye.（胸部持续疼痛，手和腿部神经疼痛
，癫痫发作，震颤和一只眼睛视力丧失。）
"Since then it has been a roller coaster," he said, with ups and downs, new symptoms, a whole series of doctors, medications and tests.
"I realized that I have a lot of damage from COVID and it's changed my life completely," he said. He has not been able to return to anything near the
active life he enjoyed before.
Unlike Reagan, when 34-year-old Stephanie Condra got sick with COVID-19 last summer, she didn't have to be hospitalized. Her symptoms were comparatively mild: fatigue, shortness of breath, stomach pain and cramping, and a low-
grade fever.
But, after it appeared she had recovered from her acute illness, Condra says she began developing a wide array of health problems that waxed and waned
but did not clear up: terrible sinus pain, nausea and loss of appetite, bone-crushing fatigue, dizziness, a burning sensation in her chest, a dry cough, brain fog, confusion, concentration issues and problems with word retrieval.
"My symptoms are constantly evolving. I get the same symptoms again and
again, and it's like one will kind of disappear and then others will come up," she explained.
While Condra said she started getting better at the beginning of 2021, she
describes her progress as slow and halting. "I'm really only able to
function for maybe, tops, like four hours during a day," she said.