Four months later, my stomach is not what it used to be.

My sleep schedule is still not back to normal.

I have considerable fatigue, it's quite debilitating, so I have to go back to bed two or three times

just to keep my energy up.

I've been treated as COVID for 97 days.

I'm pretty much in the throes of it.

I have not gotten better yet.

Some days I'm worse than I was even at the beginning.

For many COVID-19 survivors, their diagnosis was just the beginning.

Since then, their lives have been turned upside down as unexpected symptoms continue to linger.

They are known as long haulers.

Many were young and healthy, but now weeks or months later, even getting out of bed is

a struggle for some.

And doctors don't know when or if they'll ever fully recover.

In today's episode, we look at the long-term effects of COVID-19 and how it could up

end your life.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

I was on a ventilator at the end of March.

I came out of the hospital in early April, and I just really didn't know that this would

be something that would be with me now going into August.

It just stays with you in ways you'd never expected.

You might remember Michael Herbert from an earlier episode of the podcast.

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