The road to recovery after serious COVID-19 is long. Some may never be the same. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

When she arrived at PowerBack, Alexander, 61, could stand for only three seconds before her legs buckled and she collapsed in a chair. On this August day, with Tran near for support, she walked to the stairs, climbed one at a time as instructed and returned to the chair. That was enough to make Alexanders heart rate shoot to 135 beats per minute, what many people would see after a jog. Normal is 60 to 100, Tran said. Her blood oxygen, meanwhile, had plummeted to 80. Anything below 90 is too low.

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The road to recovery after serious COVID-19 is long. Some may never be the same. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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