BONUS: Checking In With A COVID Long-hauler
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Back in February, Jim Golen, a nurse in Minnesota, was on the podcast talking about his agonizing experiences as a COVID-19 long-hauler. Today, Stephanie Desmon checks in with Jim to see how he's doing nearly 19 months after contracting COVID in March 2020. If you or someone you know if suffering from long COVID, please consider taking a short survey as part of the Johns Hopkins COVID Long Study: https://covid-long.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.8 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks |
| 0:52.1 | to Jim Golan. You may remember that Jim got COVID-19 in March of 2020. |
| 0:57.5 | All these months later, he's still suffering from devastating long-haul symptoms that make it |
| 1:02.0 | hard to work, to walk, and even sometimes to breathe. They talk about this mostly ignored population |
| 1:08.2 | of COVID sufferers, those who survive, but don't recover. |
| 1:12.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:14.0 | Jim Golan, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, good morning, Stephanie. |
| 1:18.1 | It's nice to be back, and thank you for having me. |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, I'm so happy to have you back. |
| 1:22.8 | Let's remind our listeners sort of about the journey you've been on. |
| 1:26.6 | You were diagnosed what later |
| 1:30.2 | came to be known as COVID back in March of 2020. And you are definitely a long hauler. Could |
| 1:39.2 | you talk to us a little bit about the beginning and where you are today, health-wise? |
| 1:44.9 | In the beginning, I barely survived it at home, and I had a really hard time with the lungs |
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