BATH BEACH — John Mazzola contracted COVID-19 in March. “I had terrible back pain. I had a cough that I couldn’t get rid of. And I had really bad fatigue for two and a half weeks,” he recalled.
Mazzola, a member of the parish pastoral council at St. Finbar Church, Bath Beach, made a quick recovery. But the memory of his ordeal lingers: “The worst part was the fatigue …”
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