Long COVID, and strengthening hurricanes

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this edition of The Naked Scientists, new analysis on the prevalence of long COVID. How widespread is it? Also, could climate change be causing hurricanes in the Atlantic to get stronger? And, we ask if scientists have finally established how bees decide which flower to forage from next... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:24.9	Chris Smith and this week new analysis on the prevalence of long COVID how widespread
0:30.9	is it also could climate change be making hurricanes in the Atlantic stronger?
0:36.0	And we ask if scientists have finally established how bees decide
0:41.0	which flower to forage from next.
0:44.0	New analysis by in Imperial College London has found that tens of thousands of people in England
0:57.3	have lasting symptoms from COVID-19, more than a year after they were infected.
1:02.6	The findings which come from a representative sample of more than a quarter of a million people
1:06.7	suggests that 7% of those who've caught the virus have had symptoms lasting 12 weeks
1:11.6	or more, which is classified as long COVID.
1:15.0	I've been speaking to Dr. Christina Achison, who's from Imperial College's School of Public Health.
1:19.7	She's also the first author on the study.
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