Post-Viral Epidemiology (LONG COVID) Part 1 with Wes Ely

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Alie Ward

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What is Long Covid? Is it real? What does it feel like? Do you have it? And how do you cure it? With fatigue and brain fog, you don’t want to spend hours scrolling through conflicting opinions. So we’ve got you covered with the wonderful and highly-respected pulmonologist and intensive care physician and Long Covid expert, Dr. Wes Ely. So tuck in, breathe deep and let’s load you up with true facts about what Long Covid is, how it differs from other post-viral illnesses, variants and Long Covid risk, why people say it’s not real, advice for caregivers, changing opinions in medicine, similarities to HIV, treatment options, auto-immune issues, POTS, post-exertional malaise, the best way to prevent it. Next week: Part 2 with even more info.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your aunt who always carries Kleenex Allie Ward. And this episode is a long time coming, just about five years. So March 11th, 2020, it's been called the day that everything changed. I'm sure you remember. A little something called the SARS-CoV-2 virus started to make its debut globally. And the COVID-19 pandemic became a part of our lives in history. Some people more than others,
0:22.1	it's woven into your history as worldwide studies estimate that the virus has caused directly
0:27.5	or indirectly the deaths of up to 36 million people. So if you have had COVID and you bounced
0:34.5	back quickly, you're lucky. If you haven't had it, you're lucky.
0:38.2	If you've had it, you still feel weird.
0:40.3	Sit down, let's discuss.
0:42.0	And please do send this episode around to anyone who could use it.
0:44.6	I know long COVID is on a lot of our minds, and it's hard to find the information that you need.
0:48.7	This is exactly what I've hoped that it would be. Okay. So in this part one, we're going to learn how to know if you have
0:54.7	long COVID, the symptoms, why it happens, where in the body it happens, how it feels. And then next
1:00.4	week we're going to talk more about treatments and advice if you think you have it and some really
1:04.9	wonderful firsthand experience from some friends and scientists I know who have struggled with long COVID,
1:09.6	including some great advice
1:11.1	for caregivers. So this expert, oh, it's so good. So he got his MD from Tulane University in New
1:17.8	Orleans, Louisiana. He is now a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
1:22.6	He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers. He's been cited over 100,000 times. Somehow, he also found time
1:31.3	to author a critically acclaimed book. It's called Every Deep Drawn Breath, and it's about
1:36.0	developing treatment for patients in the ICU that will improve their lives after illness.
1:41.4	We'll talk about it. His lovely spouse, also a pathologist. This guy lives
1:45.7	in Bresid. He's also a pulmonologist. Now, when it comes to long COVID, he is one of the most
1:50.5	highly respected and sought after specialists. And I was thrilled when he agreed to let me
1:56.2	barrage him with all of our questions. We're going to get there in a sec. But first, thank you to all
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