Women twice as likely to be hit by long Covid symptoms

For some people, Covid is a relatively mild experience, while for others it can be deadly. But for millions of people – mostly women – that experience falls somewhere in the middle. The original infection clears up only to reveal new, more debilitating symptoms: overwhelming fatigue, heart palpitations, brain fog, headaches, poor sleep, short-term memory loss and breathlessness. Known as long Covid, symptoms affect twice as many women as men and can persist for weeks, months or even years after…