It’s been almost eight months since Chinese scientists first identified the coronavirus and doctors are still discovering new symptoms that can ravage the body and leave lasting damage months after recovering from Covid-19.
While more than 813,000 people have died from the disease, a majority of the more than 23.6 million people with confirmed infections have recovered. But it hasn’t affected all of them the same. Once thought of as just a respiratory illness, Covid-19 is marked as much by the variety of potentially perilous ways it harms the body as it is for the signature pneumonia it often causes, alarming doctors and public health officials.