Long Covid, Vaccine queries
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Most people recover rapidly after catching coronavirus. But I chat to three people who were infected almost a year ago and are still feeling the impact, both on their bodies and their minds.
Doctors are having to rapidly grapple with how to treat patients with long Covid. We speak to one of them, Dr Manoj Sivan, the Research Lead for the Long Covid Service in Leeds, who warns that long Covid could be a “second pandemic”.
We also have GP Dr Navjoyt Ladher answering your questions on the Covid vaccines.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
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| 0:34.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher. Now it's been more than a year |
| 0:40.2 | since the pandemic started and yet some people are still feeling the effects of catching coronavirus |
| 0:45.5 | way back in the first wave. It's a condition that's known as long COVID. My name is John DeSaba Richards. |
| 0:52.9 | Hi John, welcome to Inside Health. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:55.8 | Just tell me, how did this all begin? How did your COVID symptoms start? It started with the fever |
| 1:01.2 | beginning of April, but my fever lasted only 24 hours. I had a cough and the smell and paste. |
| 1:10.3 | After seven days, I was feeling better. |
| 1:12.9 | When did that become long COVID for you? |
| 1:16.3 | A couple of weeks later, I returned to work. |
| 1:19.7 | And towards the end of April, that I started having this chest pain, the most scary feeling of it. |
| 1:30.1 | When I lay on my back, you have this sandbag full of sand and water on your chest. And when I turn around and lie on my front, |
| 1:36.8 | that weight is pulling away from me. And that was the most scary feeling. Anything with chest pain, |
| 1:43.6 | you suddenly start worrying about your heart and things like that, don't |
| 1:45.7 | you? |
| 1:46.7 | That's right, but also the whole fatigue and I cannot go down and up the stairs. |
| 1:51.5 | I am 41 years old and they live like an 85 year old. |
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