Such good tips, Skinner. Thank you. Social activity and brain or intellectual stimulation can be so helpful for brain fog. So even by posting your helpful message you were doing both. 🙂

Progress is slow and requires a lot of patience. I applaud your persistence. Regarding push-ups, doing 5 only going down 1/3 or half way is still a push up. Have you thought of adding a couple more but doing them against the wall standing or on the floor from your knees. When I'm trying to build strength I do a combination of knee push-ups and full pushups.

If you go to the Post-COVID Recovery blog, you'll find more tips from Mayo experts. See here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/post-covid-recovery/

It sounds to me like you're doing all the right things!