 Here's the rough sketch and color study I did for my next painting of my two daughters in France last summer. Just began putting down paint yesterday ... excited for this one!
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 I've been on the COVID beat for HealthCentral since passengers were infected on cruise ships back in February 2020. And our editorial team first asked if COVID-19 could be chronic in early 2021. As the initial wave of research on the fallout from the novel coronavirus was arriving in our in-boxes, we shed light on the experiences and testimonies of everyday Americans who'd been infected. Millions were living with unusual, life-upending, and sometimes painful post-infection symptoms that lingered for many weeks or months—even after a negative test suggested they’d cleared the virus. Now, four years after the global health crisis changed the way all humans work and interact with one another, a new 265-page report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, commissioned by the Social Security Administration, confirms what we’ve long suspected: Infection from COVID can lead to lingering symptoms and long-term, possibly permanent disability. What's more, the report officially categorizes long COVID as a chronic disease. Ace reporter Michele G. Sullivan spoke to Ziyad Al-Aly, M.D., the director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri, one of 14 researchers and clinical experts who were tapped to create this wide-ranging document. READ OUR Q&A HERE.
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