Long covid: A young artist’s battle
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The Times
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🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the UK, 60,000 people have reported coronavirus symptoms that last more than three months. Artist Monique Jackson is one of them. What do we know about long covid, and how is the COVID Symptom Study app helping us fill in the blanks?
Guests:
Monique Jackson, artist with long tail covid.
Prof Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, co founder of ZOE Covid Symptom Study app.
Host: Manveen Rana. With reporting from Asya Fouks.
You can download the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app here.
And you can follow Monique Jackson’s Corona diary on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm John Curtis and I'm Rachel Wolf. We want to tell you about our new |
| 0:06.7 | podcast Trendy from Toy Toys. It's all about what people think and why politicians do what they do. |
| 0:14.0 | Each week we're going to look at the most important social, political and economic trends |
| 0:18.7 | in the hope that we can come to a better understanding of where we are as a country. |
| 0:22.8 | New episodes will be available every Thursday morning. |
| 0:25.8 | Search for Trendy wherever you get your podcast. You're not just breathlessness. that lasts for more than three months. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's not just breathlessness, dry cough and fever, |
| 0:57.0 | but more unexpected symptoms, like skin rash, |
| 1:01.0 | red toe, brain fog and nausea. Many, particularly young people are suffering from the debilitating |
| 1:09.0 | long-term effects for months after being infected with COVID-19. Today we find out what that's really like. |
| 1:18.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Manveen Rana, but I'm handing over to one of our producers, Asia Fuchs for this episode. |
| 1:29.0 | Today, what is Long tail COVID? It was I think late spring, early summer. I was so grateful for the warmth because the days are getting longer and after having |
| 1:57.6 | taken my sort of swab COVID test and it was negative I felt relaxed despite the symptoms to go to the park with my friend, socially |
| 2:07.8 | distanced. I met Monique Jackson a few years ago at a Thai boxing gym. We used to beat each other up for fun. We don't do that anymore and one of the reasons is Monique |
| 2:26.3 | got COVID-19 back in March. She still hasn't recovered. My breathing had improved so that I could sort of walk to London fields and we'd sort of |
| 2:39.5 | of sat and found a spot and kind of forgot how everyone else in the area goes to the park because it's one of the |
| 2:48.0 | small bits of green that you have in quite a city area of Hackney and that's why I think a sort of underestimated how a little |
| 2:59.3 | child can sort of run out of nowhere. Monique is an artist, and she's been chronicling her experience of long tail COVID |
| 3:07.0 | in an Instagram comic called Corona Diary. |
| 3:10.0 | I asked her to tell me about one of the drawings. |
| 3:13.0 | The drawing is of a really young child running towards me behind my back. |
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