Australian journalist Tracey Spicer has been struck down with long Covid that has left her feeling a like “a shadow of her former self”.

The 55-year-old triple-jabbed broadcaster and author caught the virus in January on a holiday to the Gold Coast.

The illness left her bedridden for two weeks. But while she has recovered from some symptoms, such as a severe cough, she remains so sick she can barely work — more than three months after catching the virus.

She told Nine News she is suffering from debilitating fatigue and chest pains that have landed her in hospital, fearing she was having a heart attack.

Warning of ‘mass disability event’ (<--- GET READY FOR THIS )

A Pulitzer Prize winner has warned a “mass disability event”, as numbers of those suffering long-term symptoms after having Covid continue to grow.

Ed Yong, a science writer at The Atlantic, has been chronicling symptoms of sufferers post-Covid since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, when the term “long Covid” was yet to be coined.

He warned that the huge number of infections seen by Omicron and its predecessors will see millions of people around the world affected by a “mass disability event”.

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