| Allison Mayo had contracted COVID-19 but was still working from home in September when one day, on a conference call, she stopped making sense. She couldnât find the words to finish a sentence. Then she noticed her hands turned gray. Mayo got a device to measure her blood oxygen when she was first infected, upon someoneâs advice, and used it that day. The reading was 66%. Anything under 90% or so is considered too low. Mayo raced to the emergency room expecting to get a chest X-ray and come home. Little did she know sheâd spend four days at the hospital in respiratory failure and fighting COVID-caused pneumonia in both lungs, despite not feeling terribly ill. And she definitely didnât expect that seven months later, sheâd still be fighting. Mayo, 50, is one of an untold number of Hampton Roads residents suffering from so-called âlong-haul COVIDâ or âlong COVID.â  Read more in this Sunday's Main News section. The tents are squeezed single-file onto a thin strip of grass along Norfolkâs 19th Street, between the sidewalk and the chain-link fence. Beyond the chain-link, an open field that backs up to the Ghent School, where a couple of young boys practice their golf swings. But on this side of the fence, a couple dozen folks with no other place to stay. The homeless camp has a makeshift first-aid station and a little pantry with canned goods. One of the shelters is more like an igloo than a tent â a hard white half-cylinder with a door. During the day, the bulk of the residents of this camp arenât around, mostly gone out to work day jobs, according to those still around, who keep an eye on the tents to make sure their few unsecured belongings donât disappear. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
Route 460, where Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario was pulled over, threatened and pepper sprayed Dec. 5 has been a scary stretch of road for Black people travelling back and forth to Virginia State University for decades.
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The American Battlefield Trust and Civil War Trails Inc. began their latest project more than a year ago having no idea how pertinent that work would become. The recently released Road to Freedom tour guide is a phone app, online app and printed map that overlays Virginiaâs Civil War sites with the African American history connected to those places. Read more in the Sunday Break section On a sunny day at the Bergeyâs Breadbasket farm store, so many customers arrived that they had to wait in line just to wait in line. Visits to the Bergey farm are a Chesapeake tradition whose roots go back to 1933. And on the Friday after Easter, many had likely driven miles and miles to get there from all over the region, down endless country roads near the border where strawberry fields give way to acres of Southern swamp. Children crowded the fences of the farmâs petting zoo for the chance to meet a bumper crop of baby rabbits and wee goats. Inside the store, they hovered in indecision over country-generous scoops of mint or strawberry ice cream, made according to the same recipe the Bergey family has used since 1978.  Read more in the Sunday Break section. Americans who lost a job in the last 18 months are able to stay on or join their former employerâs healthcare plan for free through Sept. 30. That provision of the American Rescue Plan Act went into effect April 1. More than 2 million people could benefit, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The way it works is through the federally administered program known as COBRA. If you work at a company with more than 20 employees and lose your job, you can remain on your employer-sponsored health insurance plan for 18 months through COBRA.   Read more in the Sunday Break section.
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