
'I barely function some days': Covid 'long haulers' struggle to work amid labor shortage
CNN
Laurie Bedell feels trapped inside her home and her ailing body. She's battling post-Covid syndrome, a mysterious long-term condition plaguing some coronavirus patients, and she remains so ill after nearly a year that she's unable to work.
"I pretty much live here in the living room," Bedell said from her house near Pittsburgh. "I feel like I've lost the life that I had."
Last November, she and her family contracted Covid-19. The virus killed her father.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has told multiple associates and allies that there’s no chance he will bow to President Donald Trump’s calls for him to resign, vowing to withstand several more months of the president’s unprecedented, multi-pronged assault over Powell’s refusal to lower interest rates.