How Omicron Changes Your Odds of Long COVID

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A new study out of England found the risk of Long COVID to be lower with the Omicron variant compared to Delta. That’s good news, but there are some caveats. Andy chats with one of the researchers behind the study, Dr. Claire Steves, who breaks down the risk of Long COVID based on age and vaccination status. Benjamin Mazer joins to discuss why the population of Americans experiencing Long COVID remains largely unseen, and why the amount of quality data from the U.K. on Long COVID far surpasses the U.S.

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Read Claire’s report out England that found the risk of Long COVID to be lower with the Omicron variant compared to Delta: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00941-2/fulltext
Read Ben’s piece on why the population of American experiencing Long COVID remains largely unseen: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/06/long-covid-chronic-illness-disability/661285/
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1:27.8	Coming in the bubble, I'm Andy Slavitt, and it's Friday June 24th.
1:33.4	Today we're going to dig in as we have several times before into the mysteries of long
1:40.8	COVID, and we are getting better and better at defining what long COVID is.
1:48.0	We are now starting to study the effects, and for the first time, at least the first time
1:55.2	in the mind, we actually have some data on what's happening with long COVID.
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