'I'm an artist but long Covid has made my face blindness even worse - sometimes I even struggle to recognise friends'
A renowned illustrator has told how long Covid has left him struggling 'face blindness' - and even finds it difficult to recognise friends. Stanley Chow has long had difficulties remembering faces, but says the memory fog has become much worse since catching coronavirus over two years ago.
Mr Chow, whse work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal, caught coronavirus in early 2021 and swiftly recovered, but was left with many symptoms that continue to affect his everyday life. An estimate two million Brits are currently living with long Covid according to the most recent data from the Office of National Statistics , with symptoms ranging from brain fog, chronic fatigue and, like Mr Chow, prosopagnosia - or "face blindness".
The 28-year-old - whose job as a portrait artist has been affected - caught Covid in March 2020 and suffered a symptom relapse two months later. “It was as if my dad’s voice came out of a stranger’s face,” Annie told researchers, revealing she has been relying on voice recognition to get by. “If I meet someone new, I’ll make a point of following them on Instgram or Facebook so their face becomes ingrained in my memory somehow.”
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