Introducing: Breakthrough

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a mysterious new illness that has stumped doctors attempting to treat symptoms that last for months and potentially years. It has changed the way hospitals work and forced healthcare officials to prepare for the next pandemic. Covid has also opened the door to revolutionary technology: messenger RNA vaccines. It’s a technology that never could have been proven so quickly outside the crucible of that first pandemic year, 2020, and it holds big implications for the future of medicine. Breakthrough launches on Oct. 19. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	I had no idea that long COVID existed.
0:03.0	The family and friends that I would talk to,
0:05.0	they had no idea that a smell component
0:08.0	was going to be a long-term feature of my illness.
0:12.0	Symptoms, like a loss of smell,
0:14.0	can persist for months in some COVID survivors.
0:18.0	Others describe debilitating brain fog and memory problems
0:21.0	that turn their life upside down.
0:24.0	Is it ever going to be normal again?
0:26.0	Am I ever going to be able to be me?
0:28.0	I don't feel like me.
0:30.0	So I don't cry.
0:32.0	I don't feel like me anymore.
0:35.0	It appears long COVID will be with us
0:38.0	well beyond the pandemic itself.
0:40.0	It's just one of the ways in which the coronavirus
0:43.0	has reshaped our world.
0:45.0	On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast
0:48.0	we're exploring the legacy of COVID
0:50.0	and the medical mysteries baffling scientists.
0:53.0	I'm Jason Gale, a senior editor at Bloomberg News.
0:57.0	And I'm Naomi Kresky, a health reporter at Bloomberg.
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