For many people who have had Covid-19, the arduous recovery has left them feeling “older than they are”, according to Alicia Arbaje, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Photo: Cottonbro/Pexels
I was 43 when the pandemic began. I am now 60.
That would seem to defy the laws of physics and common sense, but the rate of ageing is not so simple as it was once thought to be. And pandemic burnout, though not a condition listed in Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, is a real thing – a sapping of spirit, if not the body.
