Hello and welcome to the Ostrome Update COVID-19, a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic with

Dr. Michael Ostrome.

Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center

for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or CITRAP, at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. Ostrome will draw on more than 45 years of experience investigating

infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the COVID-19 pandemic.

I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for CITRAP News, and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update Podcast.

There have been many mysteries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From the origins of the coronavirus to the patterns of case surgeries and declines to the

emergence of new variants, there are many aspects of this pandemic that we still don't fully

understand and may not for quite a while.

As Dr. Ostrome likes to say, we may know less about this virus now than we did back in

April 2020.

One of the most mysterious aspects of the pandemic has been the numerous reports of people who

have continued to deal with symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive dysfunction,

just to name a few, long after they were initially infected.

Whether they were infected by the original version of the coronavirus that emerged from

Wuhan or one of the variants that have taken center stage over the last two years, many

of these long COVID patients have been suffering for months and searching for answers that

don't yet exist.

Today in the podcast, we're going to discuss what we currently know about long COVID and

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