Health Doctors aren’t sure why. Melanie Montano, 32, developed a fever, cough, stomach problems, and lost her sense of taste and smell like other coronavirus sufferers. Unlike most of them, though, her symptoms never went away. (Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post) By It started for Melanie Montano with a tightness in her chest, almost like someone was sitting on top of her. It was March 15, and she was sweating but freezing cold. And she had a strange “pins-and-needles” sensation on the back of her legs. “It was as if I woke up in a totally different body,” she recalled. Over the following...…Health Doctors aren’t sure why. Melanie Montano, 32, developed a fever, cough, stomach problems, and lost her sense of taste and smell like other coronavirus sufferers. Unlike most of them, though, her symptoms never went away. (Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post) By It started for Melanie Montano with a tightness in her chest, almost like someone was sitting on top of her. It was March 15, and she was sweating but freezing cold. And she had a strange “pins-and-needles” sensation on the back of her legs. “It was as if I woke up in a totally different body,” she recalled. Over the following...WW…

Health Doctors, nurses and first responders grapple with the enormity of what they’ve witnessed during the pandemic’s first wave A hospital worker walks along a corridor of an empty makeshift hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/AP) By Marc Ayoub remembers the woman in her 50s who came alone to the emergency room. She went into cardiac arrest and was hooked up to a ventilator. Ayoub, a resident at hard-hit Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, tried to reach her family all night, and when he finally connected with her daughter, he had only bad news. As he stood in...…Health Doctors, nurses and first responders grapple with the enormity of what they’ve witnessed during the pandemic’s first wave A hospital worker walks along a corridor of an empty makeshift hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/AP) By Marc Ayoub remembers the woman in her 50s who came alone to the emergency room. She went into cardiac arrest and was hooked up to a ventilator. Ayoub, a resident at hard-hit Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, tried to reach her family all night, and when he finally connected with her daughter, he had only bad news. As he stood in...WW…

Health Damage to the kidneys, heart, brain — even ‘covid toes’ — prompts reassessment of the disease and how to treat it By Please Note The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she became infected by the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Conn., emergency room on May 1. “You would have thought it was a stomach virus,” said her daughter, Catherina Coleman. “She was talking...…Health Damage to the kidneys, heart, brain — even ‘covid toes’ — prompts reassessment of the disease and how to treat it By Please Note The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she became infected by the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Conn., emergency room on May 1. “You would have thought it was a stomach virus,” said her daughter, Catherina Coleman. “She was talking...WW…

Health Juliet Daly was a healthy 12-year-old in Covington, La., until the coronavirus infected her heart, making its electrical signals go haywire and stop working Juliet Daly, 12, rides her bike outside her home in Covington, La., after recovering from a rare heart condition believed to be triggered by an inflammatory response to covid-19. A nasal swab confirmed she also had a second viral infection, adenovirus. (Gerald Herbert/AP) By The day Juliet Daly’s heart gave out started much like every other Monday during the quarantine. The 12-year-old from Covington, La., padded out of her room...…Health Juliet Daly was a healthy 12-year-old in Covington, La., until the coronavirus infected her heart, making its electrical signals go haywire and stop working Juliet Daly, 12, rides her bike outside her home in Covington, La., after recovering from a rare heart condition believed to be triggered by an inflammatory response to covid-19. A nasal swab confirmed she also had a second viral infection, adenovirus. (Gerald Herbert/AP) By The day Juliet Daly’s heart gave out started much like every other Monday during the quarantine. The 12-year-old from Covington, La., padded out of her room...WW…