Saturday marks three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Marta Cerda runs a home healthcare business. Whether it's interacting with employees or work behind the computer, her brain needs to be sharp, but for the past two-and-a-half years, Certa has relied on a notebook to help her remember things.Besides her brain, Cerda's lungs are scarred, her heart races and she has lost 30% of her taste and smell. The 60-year-old has suffered from long COVID since contracting the virus in 2020. She also lost her mother to the disease.
On the 3rd anniversary of COVID being declared a pandemic, Cerda and public health officials hope funding for long COVID and the public health infrastructure built for the virus continues."In this country, we now have a very bad history of boom or bust funding for public health," Arwady said. "We didn't have the ability to test for things like variants, we didn't have wastewater surveillance, there are a lot of things we built over the last 3 years," she said.
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