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KENTUCKIANS STRUGGLE WITH LONG-HAUL COVID SYMPTOMS FOUR YEARS AFTER KENTUCKY'S
FIRST-EVER CASE

Four years after the first COVID infection in Kentucky, doctors say many are
still dealing with long-lasting complications from the early days of the
pandemic.
Kentuckians struggle with long-haul COVID symptoms four years after Kentucky's
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Author: Jim Stratman
Published: 6:51 AM EST March 6, 2024
Updated: 7:55 AM EST March 7, 2024


LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On March 6, 2020, a devastating disease shattered our thought
of safety here in Kentucky.  In Harrison County, a man was diagnosed with the
first case of COVID 19 ever recorded in the commonwealth. From that point, cases
rose, hospitalizations became common, and the state, along with the rest of the
world shut down as the fight against the virus began.



Four years later, things are very different. Vaccines are widespread, there are
antiviral medicines specifically designed to treat COVID 19, and we’re no longer
in a pandemic. However, there are people out there who are still fighting
complications from the virus. Some have been fighting for a few weeks, others
have been fighting for a few years.

Dr. Monalisa Taylor with Norton Healthcare says that about 10% of her patients
who have contacted COVID 19 are experiencing what’s called long-haul COVID.
These patients are continuing to face symptoms related to their infection weeks,
months, if not years after they initially caught COVID 19.

“The COVID 19 virus tends to stay in our tissues and that might be the brain
cells, the heart cells, the gut cells, the lung cells, it’s just hanging out,”
said Dr. Taylor.

“Some of those patients are still suffering from an ability not to smell, some
of them can’t taste, some are dealing with daily headaches and migraines, some
are dealing with breathing issues as well as an increased complication risk of
diabetes or prediabetes,” she continued.

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Those symptoms of long-haul COVID are across the board.

Dr. Taylor says at this point there just hasn’t been enough research to say for
certain why this is happening or how to cure long-haul COVID.

“Everyone’s symptoms are so varied and so different and so that makes it
difficult to say, ‘Oh you’ve got long-haul COVID smell. You’ve got long haul
COVID breathing issues. You’ve got long-haul COVID gut issues. They are so
different depending on the person that it makes it very hard to track in that
sense as well,” said Dr. Taylor.

“As we’re looking at these long-haul COVID symptoms, that’s what we’re treating
them as, symptoms. We don’t know what the cause of this is just yet,” she
continued.



Norton Healthcare representatives say that one complication from long-haul COVID
is brain fog.

“Patients are reporting difficulty with attention, dual tasking, processing
information, maintaining train of thought in a conversation, remembering what I
was getting ready to say, also things with memory or executive functions skills
which is our ability to plan and organize more higher-level cognitive
processes,” said Brittany McAndrew, a Speech Language Pathologist with Norton.

She and her team developed a therapy program to specifically help patients who
are dealing with cognitive issues because of their battle with COVID 19.

“We teach patients attention strategies, memory strategies, we then use
exercises to help practice using the strategies affectively and then as we
progress towards treatment, we talk about how we can implement these strategies
and skills into daily functions, that’s at home and at work, and then gradually
start to reintegrate into a daily, normal routine again,” said McAndrew.



According to McAndrew, her patients range from those who have caught COVID
recently to those who have been dealing with these complications for years. The
key is about helping them unlock the skills that are still in their brain.

“All of the skills are still there, we’re just having to rebuild and retrain how
they can work efficiently again,” she said.

“Not everybody returns to what they knew as normal, but a lot of patients can
regain the skills or the functions to return to a normal life style; possibly
doing things differently, but doing things successfully,” said McAndrew.

Both McAndrew and Dr. Taylor agree that at this point the research is ever
evolving and what we think we know about long-haul COVID could change in the
coming months or years.

They say that the best way to avoid complications from long-haul COVID is to
make sure you’re up to date on your vaccines, test on the third day of your
symptoms, and if you do have COVID 19 contact your doctor.



Doctors say that getting a prescription for a COVID 19 antiviral now could go a
long way to limiting your chance of serious illness or developing long lasting
complication.


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