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The COVID Long Haul: How could a virus paralyze her legs WKYC VIDEO COPYRIGHT

Eliana Rosario is like many 14-year-olds. She loves to hang out with friends, she plays flute in the school band, and like a lot of other kids, she got COVID. In fact, her entire family was infected over Christmas 2020. "I was coughing, a lot of body aches, chills, definitely lost my sense of smell and taste," Eliana said. "I mean, I still don't really have that back yet." Little did she know the virus would wreak far more havoc on her body over the next 10 months. A nagging symptom slowed her down. "It felt like someone was, like, pressing on my chest," she explained. "Like, it was hard for me to breathe when it happened. It's very uncomfortable." Eliana's doctors initially linked the symptom to anxiety, but just after her school band played half time at the October homecoming game, her world came crashing down. "I wasn't able to move my arms a lot, or my legs," she remembered. "I couldn't turn my head to the right, and my right side was a lot weaker than my left." Eliana remembers the event, but couldn't communicate well. Her mother Jessica rushed to her side, saying that it seemed her daughter had "zoned out."