Long Covid: Women and 'brainworkers' especially affected


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Heller-Scheunemann felt that she couldn't do her job as a manager due to her long Covid symptoms. — dpa

Taking showers was painful for Silvana Heller-Scheunemann, and her clothes brushing against her skin was hardly bearable.

"My head felt like a pincushion," the 50-year-old long Covid patient says.

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