Long COVID Scientists Try To Unravel Blood Clot Mystery

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

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The COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, but millions across the globe continue to deal with Long COVID. Researchers are still pursuing basic questions about Long COVID — its causes, how to test for it and how it progresses. Today, we look at a group of researchers studying the blood of some Long COVID patients in the hopes of finding a biomarker that could let physicians test for the disease.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Hey everyone, Emily Kwong here with Anil Oza,
0:07.9	Science Writer and former shortwave intern, hey Anil.
0:10.3	Hi Emily.
0:11.1	So around the world, public health officials have really started to
0:14.7	wind down their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
0:18.1	The World Health Organization officially ended the COVID global health
0:22.1	emergency.
0:23.1	The US has ended its pandemic state of emergency.
0:26.6	But the fact remains, many, many people are still dealing with the effects of this virus
0:32.4	and with long COVID in particular.
0:34.7	So today, we're going to talk about it.
0:36.7	And Emily, I've been following around some researchers recently.
0:39.3	We're basically bootstrapping their research that could help identify if someone has long
0:43.1	COVID and potentially how to treat it.
0:45.4	Oh, okay.
0:46.7	Well, let's start with the science and we'll get to the bootstrapping part later.
0:50.6	What did you learn?
0:52.0	Well, long COVID is a huge and a growing problem.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	But we still don't have a biomarker, meaning you can't go to a doctor's office and test
0:59.3	for it specifically.
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