Oh, hey, it's still your aunt who always has Kleenex in our purse. This is Allie Ward. This is Ologies. We're back with part two of a long COVID episode to answer as many questions from patrons as we possibly can. If you have not yet started with part one, I don't know why you're here. Go there. It's an essential step to learning. Why we love this expert so much. We cover so many basics like what long COVID is, why some

doctors don't believe their patients, the similarities to other viruses, whether it's autoimmune,

so much more. So we're going to get to this episode in a sec, but first thank you to all the patrons

who sent in great questions. And you can become one of them by joining patreon.com slash ologies

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tears. You can send in your audio questions so we can hear your voice on the show. Thank you to all

the folks spreading the word via merch on your bodies, which we keep affordable at ologiesmerch.com.

Thanks to everyone also spreading the word about our new kid-friendly spin-off show. It's called Smologies, which is in its own feed, wherever you get podcasts, where it's also linked in the show notes.

And thanks to everyone leaving reviews for the show.

I read them all.

I read them all, including this one from Effing Scientist, who wrote that the show is like,

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Effing scientist, I send you a bookish hug and a high five. Thanks for that. Now, let's move on to

part two of long COVID in which we address asthma, autoimmunity, long lime, new research, flimflam,

pots, pulmonary health, clots, prevention.

If vaccines help prevent long COVID, the mental load that comes along with the illness,

how to advocate for yourself and the people you love,

and advice and info from our friend Diana Cowern, aka the physics girl and her husband

Kyle, and more with professor, author,

researcher, intensivist, and post-viral epidemi questions, and many listeners asked via patreon.com sociologies about this,

including Vanessa Adams, Will Constantini, I like plants more than people, Creel Ramah Assyri,

Raya the Tiger, Jeremy Snyder, Shante, Heckraiser, Valby listening, Livlon,

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