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and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.

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Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Zed L. Ali,

director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at Washington University in St. Louis,

about his recent study chronicling neurological problems in people a year after their COVID diagnoses.

These symptoms can go beyond the brain fog we've heard about and include seizures, mood disorders, and even stroke.

Let's listen.

Ziat Al-Ali. Thanks so much for joining me.

Well, thank you for having me.

So today I wanted to talk to you about neurologic disorders and COVID.

I know that we had you on the program before discussing another paper that you had done on cardiac impacts.

And I wanted to talk about sort of what you're finding.

And I know you had recently had a paper that talked about the increased risk of neurological problems

in people who had had COVID in the prior year.

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