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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

First person: Living with long COVID

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Long COVID is generally defined as having symptoms that persist for more than four weeks. Hanna Tripp has lived with COVID symptoms since March 2020, just as the pandemic began. Hear her story in today's 'First person' diary.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:19.3

Hello, I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store with another episode in our first person series from On Point.

0:25.9

On the show today, we heard with doctors who study long COVID are learning from research into

0:31.1

chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition with similar symptoms but long dismissed by the medical

0:36.8

establishment. Long COVID is generally defined as having symptoms that persist for more than four

0:42.8

weeks. Hannah Tripp, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts, has lived with COVID symptoms since March 2020,

0:50.1

just as the pandemic began. Here's her story.

0:52.9

I started feeling sick but I didn't have a very significant case of COVID and at that time,

1:01.6

they were saving the tests for people that were just on that store.

1:04.8

There wasn't any real way to verify it.

1:08.8

I just showed up to the yard.

1:10.3

The third time I went, they found out that I had COVID and I was admitted to the hospital.

1:18.4

I was there for about three days.

1:19.7

I had to take a week off after being in the hospital and then when I got back, I'd work a

1:28.9

couple days but then the symptoms would get too much and then I'd have to take a couple days off

1:33.4

and I'm doing all these exams and tests and they're kind of coming back negative and

1:40.5

you know there's something wrong with you and you start having employers kind of,

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