11/22/2020: COVID's Long-Haulers; Where did they Go?; 90+

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Months after contracting COVID-19, seemingly healthy, active, younger people are experiencing what some doctors have started referring to as Post-acute COVID Syndrome. Anderson Cooper explains. Enrollment data from 78 of the country's largest school districts found at least 240,000 students were unaccounted for as school began during the pandemic. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. Four of the eight men and women over the age of 90 -- who were featured in a 2014 60 Minutes story are still alive and participating in the 90+ Study. Lesley Stahl catches up with them on this week's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Both arms go up and over your head.
0:09.0	Eight months into the pandemic, patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who had recovered from relatively mild cases of COVID...
0:17.0	I just got an MRI.
0:18.0	...are showing up in doctors' offices and emergency rooms around the world
0:22.2	with mysterious and debilitating symptoms.
0:25.5	There's thousands and thousands of people that are going through this, and that's why it's so impactful.
0:30.6	You believe it's not in their heads.
0:32.2	Yeah, I have to, because I feel those symptoms, too, and I don't think it's all in my head.
0:39.4	No one is keeping track of how many kids nationwide are not in school because of the pandemic.
0:46.1	So 60 Minutes compiled enrollment data from 78 of the largest school districts in the country.
0:52.4	The results were alarming.
1:01.0	Districts reported that when schools started, at least 240,000 students were unaccounted for. Well, here in Hillsborough County, we're missing 7,000 students.
1:04.0	7,000 kids didn't come back.
1:06.0	7,000.
1:07.0	What's going on, Lou?
1:10.0	60 minutes has been following elderly participants in a study called 90-plus.
1:16.6	And as you'll hear tonight, what they're finding out about the science of longevity is evolving and amazing.
1:25.3	Half of all children born today in the United States and Europe
1:28.9	is going to reach their 103rd or fourth birthday.
1:32.5	Half? Yes.
1:36.0	I'm Leslie Stahl.
1:37.7	I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper.
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