Five years after the pandemic first struck New York and the nation, Alisha is one of potentially hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers — researchers are unclear exactly how many there are — who are still slowed down by long COVID. Their condition is defined by symptoms that come on after an acute COVID infection and last for at least three months, and sometimes years. Although long COVID is a well-documented phenomenon, there’s still no diagnostic test to confirm its presence, meaning that symptoms are generally self-reported. Read the full story here.