Some people who were infected with coronavirus maintain, years later, different symptoms that incapacitate them to lead a normal life, which is called persistent covid, although the administration, mainly labor, does not recognize it as a cause of disability, before which those affected feel alone.
This has been expressed by several of the representatives of persistent covid patients in Logroño, in an act called simultaneously in several cities coinciding with the third anniversary of the declaration of the state of alarm.
Since it is not a recognized pathology as such, there is no official record of those who are in this situation in La Rioja, although at least fifty people are part of a group in which they share their experiences.
Many of them coincide, they have reported, and they began when they were infected with covid; After overcoming the disease, they saw how some of its consequences did not subside, especially a great fatigue that even prevented them from walking for more than half an hour a day.
For this reason they cannot join their professional activities, but in most cases Social Security does not recognize their disability.
“I couldn’t even walk”
This is the story of Tamara de la Horra, a nurse mother of three children who was infected with covid months after vaccinating with the full regimen and after passing the disease “she could not even walk, or walk and hardly even talk” although “All the tests said that I was fine.”
“I had the disease again and after that my arms and legs did not respond to me and I could barely remember things”, he detailed and stressed that “although it has improved, my situation has nothing to do with what it was before ”.
He has stressed that he is aware that “you have to have a positive attitude” but “we also need help from the administration, that they not only tell us that the tests are good” and “we would also need a unit specialized in this matter” and ” Added to all this is the fact that Social Security is the one who decides if you have to return to your job” and “that means that there are people who lose it”.
Another health worker who is in the same situation is Noemí Pascual, who had the covid after being infected at her workplace in January 2021 “and since then I have been left with tachycardia and dyspnea” and “I was under treatment for a year” until ” the Social Security Institute discharged me and sent me to work” and “I lasted six days because I got infected again and it was worse.”
“Little by little I have improved, but I have muscle fatigue with which I can’t do anything or go anywhere and I can barely walk for a quarter of an hour”, he recounted and has admitted that mentally “he has a bad time, there are days that you You start crying, because you think that no one understands you, because I look fine”.
For this reason, he believes that they are “the great forgotten of the covid” and “that is why a specialized team is needed to study our situation and more sensitivity of Social Security, so that they do not send us to work without further ado.”