It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Now the Health and Climate

Tuesday section of the show, as we do every week this week, a couple of challenges

to public health

we're facing. The surge in measles cases this year, if you haven't heard the extent of that yet.

And the ongoing problem of what's called Long COVID. Joining us for this is Dr. Daniel Griffin,

MD, PhD, Chief of Infectious Disease Medicine for Island Infectious Diseases, the largest physician-owned

infectious disease specialist group on Long Island. Also a clinical instructor of medicine at

Columbia University, president of the group Parasites Without Borders, which provides information

to medical professionals in countries where parasites are a

major cause of disease and co-host of the podcast this week in virology or the acronym Twiv,

as they like to use. We always learn things when you come on. Dr. Griffin, welcome back to WNYC.

Well, thank you, Brian, for having me, and hello to all the listeners. And we want to talk about

measles, of course, given the numbers and the issues going on with vaccinations now. But let's

start with long COVID. Remind us first, long COVID isn't just one set of symptoms. What's the

range you're still seeing? Sure. You know, it is unfortunate that we're

still seeing new cases of long COVID. So what is long COVID? You know, we have a big

umbrella term. We talked about post-acute sequela of COVID. So these are folks that get COVID,

two weeks go by, and three weeks go by, four weeks go by, and they're still having issues.

Some of those issues are this chronic fatigue type where they're just not able to think clearly,

there's exhaustion, you know, trouble getting up flight of stairs, trouble taking care of the kids,

trouble doing work. But then there's also a whole

constellation of other symptoms. You might have a new diagnosis of diabetes out of the blue.

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