Catherine L Ward is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. In 2023, she won a Distinguished Women in Science Award from South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation. I have long Covid. In March 2020, I was swimming 40 lengths of the gym pool before working a 10-hour day. Now, I can barely walk 400 steps in one go. Doing anything more than walking 400 steps in one go results in extreme fatigue that keeps me in bed for days.