Chad Hardee knows many people who went through what he went through aren’t alive to talk about it. Hardee spent nearly six months hospitalized with COVID-19. He suffered two strokes, COVID-induced pneumonia, a medically induced coma and several months wiped from his memory. More than a year after his initial infection, he’s still not back to the person he was before the coronavirus. That’s the case for many so-called COVID-19 long-haulers in Horry County, South Carolina, and across the country. Hardee’s lung capacity is still only at 38%. Michelle Ford can’t taste or smell her food. Robert Bel...