Long COVID and the Stem Cell Sell
Three weeks after coming down with COVID-19, Colin Bennett woke up with a burning sensation coursing through his entire body. A hot, stabbing pain went through his chest, and his left arm had gone numb.
“I thought I had a heart attack,” Bennett says.
He rushed to the emergency room, only to have all his cardiac tests come back normal. The ER doctors sent him home, saying he would likely feel better soon.
Bennett, who is 34 years old and lives in Southern California, came down with an initially mild case of COVID-19 in August 2021. When his flu-like symptoms went on for more than two weeks and he began to experience new symptoms like dizziness and difficulty concentrating, Bennett suspected that something was seriously wrong. When he searched his symptoms online, he found that they matched those of long COVID patients.
“Some people have a mild case,” says Bennett. “But the potential is there to turn into something like me.”