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Inside Health

Long Covid revisited

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s a long Covid reunion on Inside Health. We first met Jo, Neil and John in February 2021 when they were 12 months into the condition.

Another year on, we catch up with them to see if they are any closer to making a full recovery. We explore how a virus can cause such prolonged symptoms, with Dr David Strain from the NHS Long Covid Taskforce, and see if we are any closer to treating long Covid.

PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

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0:26.9

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0:27.6

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0:28.5

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0:30.9

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0:34.5

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0:38.1

Hello and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher.

0:42.2

We're having a bit of a reunion this episode because a year ago on Inside Health we met three people.

0:48.8

Joe House, Neil Robinson and John Tasarbi Richards.

0:52.2

And what united all of them was they had long COVID,

0:55.3

and they'd had it for a long time. So they were infected in the first wave of the pandemic,

0:59.8

and then 12 months later, when we spoke to them, their COVID had become long COVID,

1:05.1

and they still hadn't fully recovered. So we thought we'd catch up with them again,

1:09.1

another 12 months on to see how they're

1:11.5

feeling, what's better, what's worse, and also take a moment to assess the latest science.

1:16.8

Do we now understand the cause of long COVID or have any idea about how to treat it?

1:22.0

We'll get there by the end, but first, let's have a reminder of how our trio were feeling a year ago.

1:28.9

I remember it feeling ridiculous when we got to the two-month stage and thinking,

1:33.6

surely I must be better and, you know, this is silly, and then three months,

1:37.2

and then suddenly you're at six months and then, you know, now we're at 10 months.

1:42.0

The breathing's got better, but some things are getting worse,

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