Check your phone. If it says 3:47am or 4:12am and you have not slept yet (or woke up drenched in sweat and coughing up a lung), accept that sleep is not currently an option. Fighting this will only make you more frustrated.
However, I'm here to help with your request. Since I don't know your specific topic or academic background, I'll provide some general suggestions for good papers across various fields. Feel free to pick one that interests you or provide more context for a more tailored recommendation:
For the first few days of COVID, you fight the symptoms with warrior logic. Hydrate. Medicate. Sleep it off. But by the fourth night—or is it the fifth? Time has dissolved into a slurry of bad TV and half-empty cough syrup bottles—your body rebels against the concept of rest. i wrote this at 4am sick with covid
Your eyes are tired. Let a British narrator tell you a story while you drift.
Eventually, the birds will start chirping. The sky will turn that bruised shade of purple-grey that signals the dawn. The fever might break, or it might just retreat for a few hours to catch its breath. Check your phone
The statement functions on three rhetorical levels:
You are not alone.
This is the danger zone. You are too tired to sleep, too sick to get up. You start thinking about your own mortality. You wonder if your life insurance is paid up. You wonder why you never learned to play the piano. You wonder if COVID has permanently ruined your sense of smell, or if the garbage can in the corner of your bedroom actually smells like burnt toast.