Show 1273: Finding Ways to Manage Long COVID

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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When the COVID pandemic began, doctors thought that patients either recovered fairly quickly or they died. Before long, though, some patients identified themselves as “long haulers” because they were suffering debilitating symptoms for months after their diagnoses, neither dying nor recovering. There are people who become short of breath just walking up a few steps, […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Millions of people who have had COVID-19
0:18.0	continue to suffer debilitating symptoms for months.
0:21.0	They're called long haulers. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
0:27.0	Grayden.
0:31.0	Many people who get through the initial COVID infection end up with overwhelming fatigue,
0:40.0	shortness of breath, brain fog, or dizziness on standing.
0:44.0	What is causing such incapacitating symptoms?
0:48.0	Many clinics now offer long COVID patients a variety of treatments for the broad range of symptoms they suffer.
0:56.1	The director of the Recover Clinic at the Cleveland Clinic describes their program.
1:01.9	A research group thinks it's found the cause and a potential treatment.
1:06.2	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, finding ways to manage long COVID. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, an outbreak in a Texas prison reveals
1:20.0	how contagious the Delta variant of COVID-19 is even for people who are vaccinated.
1:26.8	There were 233 prisoners in this part of the facility.
1:30.5	79% of them, 185 individuals, were fully vaccinated.
1:37.0	This summer, three-fourths of the prison population caught COVID.
1:41.5	39 out of 42 unvaccinated prisoners were infected. That's 93%.
1:47.8	On the other hand, 129 out of 185 fully vaccinated people came down with the virus. That's 70%. Of the 172 individuals
1:59.6	who were infected, four needed to be hospitalized. Three of these were unvaccinated, including the
2:06.6	one who died. The Moderna vaccination appeared to provide better protection than the Pfizer-Bionantec vaccine.
2:15.0	One of the most important lessons from this outbreak is that fully vaccinated people are still quite
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