Georgia's long COVID sufferers pin hopes on national research into the illness

Laura Price, a licensed practical nurse, at home in Kennesaw, Ga. She's lived with symptoms of long COVID after two bouts of COVID-19 earlier in the pandemic. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)
Laura Price, a licensed practical nurse, at home in Kennesaw, Ga. She's lived with symptoms of long COVID after two bouts of COVID-19 earlier in the pandemic. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

When COVID-19 first hit the United States, Kennesaw nurse Laura Price was working at a doctor’s office north of Atlanta, caring for increasing numbers of patients who ended up in the hospital.

“And I remember saying to the girls that I worked with, I don’t know what this is, but this is the worst sickness that I’ve ever seen,” she said. “And I had already experienced another pandemic because I was in Pediatrics when we had H1N1.” 

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