Over half of Americans consider themselves drinkers and more than 19 million people are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Experts suggest during COVID, join a social media sober group. Also, prepare your story—when someone asks why you don’t drink, have an answer ready, like you have to get up early or you quit for health reasons. “Addicts and alcoholics who are trying to be sober don’t have to feel alone,” said Barnes. And most importantly, if you abuse alcohol, there’s a 50% greater risk increase that your kids will drink too.

It was like the flu on steroids, shared COVID-19 survivor Clarence Troutman. It just, really took a lot of intensive rehab, added Kat Aksamit, PT, DPT, NCS, a physical therapist at University of Colorado Hospital. Were seeing a lot of neurologic damage with people that have had COVID disease and a lot of blood clots, elaborated Dr. Niehaus. University of Colorado Hospital was one of the first facilities to begin actively rehabbing patients that are still COVID positive. Hospitals around the country are revamping their rehab procedures evaluating patients daily, revising how much rehab patients can handle.