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SAN DIEGO, CA - AUGUST 06: The Seaport Village Trolley Station is largely empty, save for pigeons pecking around a discarded mask and bottle of Lysol on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 in San Diego, CA. The transit system has undertaken a number of safety protocols to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Sam Hodgson / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

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Long Beach, CA - United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, center, tours the Long Beach Public Health Department and hosts a roundtable on pandemic preparedness with local public health officials. June 01: in Long Beach on Thursday, June 1, 2023 in Long Beach, CA. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Irvine, CA - February 14: Courtney Gavin, shown taking a break from coming down the chairlift from her upstairs room, as her husband Connor Mayer, not shown, prepares to help her doing basic tasks in the home. Courtney got sick with Covid in March 2020 and is now sick with long covid. She is a graphic artist and used to play in a couple bands but is on hold until she recovers at her home with her husband, Connor Mayer. Photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 in Irvine, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Courtney Gavin is experiencing long covid and the costs (emotionally, physically and financially) this disease has had on their lives. She currently is not working and has severe shortness of breath, needs help doing basic tasks in the home (pushed in a wheelchair, uses a chairlift) and is fatigued easily. Connor works as a professor at UC Irvine and is now her full-time caregiver. He noted he is struggling with balancing the responsibilities of being a caregiver over his career responsibilities (which has resulted in a loss of income).The couple has shared that they have spent over $60k in medical expenses (chair lift, wheelchair, supplements), Courtney plays music and is largely bedridden, but they seem to have a routine where Connor makes her food and sets up everything before he leaves for work to make it as easy as possible for her to eat and take care of herself. Courtney also applied for disability and was denied recently.

One in 10 people infected with the coronavirus during the Omicron era suffered from long COVID, indicating the syndrome remains a notable threat.

COVID-19 outbreak hits CDC epidemiology conference

FILE - A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sign stands at the entrance of their offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. On Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, the head of nation's top public health agency announced a shake-up of the organization, in a bid to respond to ongoing criticism and try to make it more nimble. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

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Irvine, CA - February 14: Courtney Gavin, who got sick with Covid in March 2020 and is now sick with long covid, plays guitar in her room, where she spend most of her time. She used to play in a couple bands but is on hold until she recovers at her home with her husband, Connor Mayer. Photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 in Irvine, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Courtney is experiencing long covid and the costs (emotionally, physically and financially) this disease has had on their lives. She currently is not working and has severe shortness of breath, needs help doing basic tasks in the home (pushed in a wheelchair, uses a chairlift) and is fatigued easily. Connor works as a professor at UC Irvine and is now her full-time caregiver. He noted he is struggling with balancing the responsibilities of being a caregiver over his career responsibilities (which has resulted in a loss of income).The couple has shared that they have spent over $60k in medical expenses (chair lift, wheelchair, supplements), Courtney plays music and is largely bedridden, but they seem to have a routine where Connor makes her food and sets up everything before he leaves for work to make it as easy as possible for her to eat and take care of herself. Courtney also applied for disability and was denied recently.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 23, 2022: Jeremy Oyague, right, a registered nurse with The Los Angeles Department of Public Health, administers a COVID booster at a vaccination clinic to immunize people against monkeypox and COVID at The Village Mental Health Services in Los Angeles, a site run by The People Concern. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 22: A woman crosses a nearly empty road in the Central Business District during rush hour, after most workers were expected to work from home and offices closed, on November 22, 2022 in Beijing, China. In an effort to try to bring rising cases under control, the local government on Friday closed many restaurants for inside dining, switched schools to online studies, and asked people to work from home. Though the government recently revised its COVID strategy, it has said it will continue to stick to its strict zero tolerance policy with mandatory testings, quarantines and lockdowns in many areas in an effort to control the spread of the virus. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

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SANTA MONICA, CA - DECEMBER 13, 2022 - - Members of the Boys and Girls Club, with St. Anne School, take a dance class with dancer Tal Barnston, center, with Jacob Jonas The Company, in the courtyard at the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica on December 13, 2022. Jacob Jonas The Company is one of the tenants at the Water Garden. CBRE brings in musical acts to entertain once a week, offers dance classes and a noon class on how to make floral arrangements as part of office landlords efforts to entice their tenants to stay. The pandemic has made successful programming harder because fewer people come to the office, but its importance has only grown as landlords try to make working in their buildings more appealing than working at home. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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Loma Linda, CA - December 28: Priscilla Velazco keeps a watchful eye on her 6-month-old daughter Emilia Zarazua, at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, in Loma Linda, CA. Her daughter Emilia had fallen ill with the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, just one of the viruses that had been filling the beds at the pediatric intensive care unit for weeks. (Editors note: NO RESALES) (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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