Breakthrough: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The loss of the sense of smell affects almost one in every two people who get Covid-19. Usually it resolves within a week or two. But for some, like Dr. Alex McCutchan, smell and taste distortions persist for a year, leaving an invisible illness that disrupts daily life. Scientists like Leah Beauchamp are learning that its significance doesn’t end there. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale meets two best friends who are exploring long Covid’s potentially scary, lifelong consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
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| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
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| 0:30.7 | The part about my job that I love the most is talking to patients, spending time with them, |
| 0:36.3 | explaining, answering their questions on more |
| 0:39.7 | of a human level than sometimes that you would get in a busy hospital. |
| 0:44.5 | Alex McCutcheon says she went into medicine because she wanted to help people. |
| 0:48.7 | One of my friends had told me, I think you'd be a really good obstetrician. |
| 0:53.1 | Alex lives in Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. |
| 0:56.4 | When she was in high school in suburban Melbourne, |
| 0:58.8 | Alex looked into becoming a midwife. |
| 1:01.0 | And at her careers fair, she watched instructors explain the childbirth process. |
| 1:06.0 | It got to a point during a simulation of an obstetric patient |
| 1:09.1 | that they said, all right, now this is where we |
| 1:11.5 | stop. We'll have to go and get the doctor. You'd have to go and get the obstetrician. And I said, |
| 1:16.2 | yeah, what about that? What can I do that? And they said, oh, you'd have to go to medical school. |
| 1:21.8 | So I went to medical school. |
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