HARTFORD, Conn. — Natasha Cloud felt like she was playing the best basketball of her career to start the 2022 WNBA season. Then, after a road game against the Minnesota Lynx on May 8, the Washington Mystics star tested positive for COVID-19.
The flu-like symptoms only lasted for a few days, but Cloud has noticed a long-term effect. The way she recovers from playing isn’t the same anymore. Her body doesn’t respond as quickly as it once did to treatment. And she gets much more fatigued on a daily basis than she used to.
“It’s been really hard,” Cloud told the Hartford Courant last Saturday. “I went three years without COVID and because of how we travel and the ways in which we travel, I got COVID flying to our game in Minnesota. And that’s really tough because it doesn’t matter how much we abide by the protocols, how much we try to protect ourselves, with the lifted mandate of masks on public transportation we’re not safe.”
