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Colorado Doctor: Vaccines May Ease Symptoms For COVID Long Haulers

"Long haulers" are COVID-19 survivors who get the disease and then have ongoing symptoms that can last months.

(CBS News)

March 16, 2021

DENVER (CBS4) – The vaccines being distributed in Colorado and around the country may provide relief for COVID “long haulers,” COVID-19 survivors who get the disease and then have ongoing symptoms that can last months. That’s according to CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida, who has been looking into the abnormal medical cases.

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“You could have mild disease, you could have severe disease, you could have no symptoms, then all of the sudden you develop ongoing headaches, ongoing fatigue, ongoing shortness of breath, aching muscles,” explained Hnida in his weekly question and answer session on CBSN Denver.

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