BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 four years later
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It is four years since we reported the first cases of an outbreak of a mysterious viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in China. Within months, what become known as Covid-19, had spread around the world affecting most people in some way. The disease led to the creation of this programme. Since March 2020 – shortly after the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic – we began our first conversations. Four years on, we thought we would take the opportunity to return to Covid-19 and reunite some of the people we have spoken with over the past four years. Our conversations feature three doctors – in India, Italy and the US – who treated Covid-19 patients in the early days of the pandemic. Host James Reynolds also catches up with three former guests who have long Covid.
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| 0:00.0 | Take a walk in somebody else's shoes with podcasts from the BBC World Service |
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| 0:19.1 | Hello I'm James Reynolds. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:25.2 | In BBC OS Conversations we bring people together around the world to share their experiences |
| 0:31.2 | and this time conversations four years after the first reports of |
| 0:35.3 | COVID-19. Almost all of us were affected in some way by the pandemic and many still are. |
| 0:42.1 | We catch up with doctors we first spoke to back in 2020. |
| 0:46.2 | Three people with long COVID share their experiences of debilitating illness. We also hear |
| 0:52.1 | positive stories of lives changed, although it's not something that |
| 0:55.8 | our guests tend to speak about that openly. |
| 0:58.7 | I fear if I approach a situation and say, well, you know, it was terrible, but look with the good that |
| 1:05.1 | came out of it. I don't think people are ready quite yet. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, they don't want to hear that sometimes. |
| 1:12.0 | It's hard to believe, isn't it, that it's four years since we first reported on cases of an outbreak of a mysterious viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in China. |
| 1:22.0 | Within months that mysterious pneumonia became known as COVID-19. It |
| 1:26.6 | spread to affect almost all of us in one way or another. It was that disease |
| 1:32.1 | incidentally that led to the creation of this program. |
| 1:36.4 | Since March 2020, shortly after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, |
| 1:41.5 | we began those first conversations bringing together those affected, |
| 1:45.9 | from paramedics and bereaved families to people isolated by lockdowns and members of the team |
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