How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is helping doctors understand long COVID

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of Americans suffer from long COVID, and doctors still don’t understand it. But researchers who’ve spent decades studying Chronic Fatigue Syndrome say they have some answers. Dr. David Putrino and Dr. Lucinda Bateman join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:19.3	I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store, in for Magna Chakrabardi.
0:22.6	And this is on point.
0:24.7	Today, we're going to explore a medical mystery
0:27.8	and how chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition
0:30.6	with similar symptoms, but long dismissed
0:33.2	by the medical establishment, might hold clues to understanding it.
0:37.6	That medical mystery is long COVID.
0:40.0	Long COVID is generally defined as having symptoms
0:42.8	that persist for more than four weeks.
0:45.5	Hannah Tripp has lived with symptoms since March 2020
0:48.9	just as the pandemic began.
0:51.3	So I started feeling sick, but I didn't have a very significant
0:55.2	case of COVID.
0:58.0	At that time, they were saving the tests for people
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