How to support people with long COVID

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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One in five Americans who have had COVID have experienced symptoms lasting three months or more. How can patients navigate this chronic illness? And how can the people in their lives provide comfort and strength? In this episode from our friends at It's Been a Minute, host Brittany Luse talks to the editor and a contributor of a new book, 'The Long COVID Survival Guide.'

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit, my Mariel Seguera.
0:04.0	The pandemic of the past few years has fundamentally changed things for a lot of people.
0:08.8	That is especially and painfully true for folks with long COVID.
0:13.5	Today on the show we have a special episode.
0:15.5	It's a conversation from one of my favorite NPR podcasts.
0:18.5	It's been a minute.
0:19.5	And in the episode, host Brittany Luce talks to experts about the symptoms of long COVID,
0:24.2	the medical tests you might need, and the language you can use when you talk to your
0:27.9	doctors about it.
0:28.9	Here's the episode.
0:30.9	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:35.3	I'm Brittany Luce.
0:37.2	While some folks might try to forget it, we are still in an ongoing pandemic.
0:43.7	More than two and a half years in, people are still getting sick and not just four
0:47.8	weeks or two.
0:49.6	According to the CDC, of the adults who have had COVID, and that's a lot of us, one in
0:55.4	five have developed long COVID symptoms, and it can really take a toll.
1:00.8	It was this feeling like I had been run over by a train and I couldn't get up from the
1:06.4	tracks, and I was screaming at people not to come to the train tracks.
1:12.4	That's Carla Montoroso.
1:14.0	She's a contributor to a new book called the Long COVID Survival Guide.
1:18.1	The Long COVID Survival Guide is first and foremost for people dealing with long COVID.
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