Show 1392: Grappling with the Mysteries of Long COVID

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Our interviews this week focus on what is known and what is still being discovered about the mysteries of long COVID. We speak with a physician heading the long COVID Care Center at Yale University and with a microbiologist heading up a multidisciplinary research initiative. You could listen through your local public radio station or […]

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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	For decades chronic fatigue syndrome was dismissed as psychosomatic.
0:20.0	Long COVID has changed everything.
0:22.0	This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Millions of Americans who were infected with SARS COV2 are now suffering from long COVID.
0:41.0	There are over 200 symptoms associated with this condition including chronic fatigue.
0:47.0	Modern medicine has a hard time dealing with a condition that has so many different symptoms and no clear treatment.
0:55.1	That leaves both patients and physicians frustrated.
0:58.7	What is the latest research on the possible causes of post-acute sequeli of COVID.
1:03.6	Does the virus persist in the body?
1:05.7	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:07.8	grappling with the mysteries of long COVID. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, COVID is back.
1:18.8	Actually, it never went away, but cases are rising across the country.
1:23.8	According to the CDC, virus levels in 26 states are categorized as high or very high
1:30.4	based on wastewater surveillance. California, Nevada, and Oregon are all at very high levels, and so are Texas and Florida.
1:40.0	No states are reporting a decline, although emergency rooms are not overwhelmed.
1:45.4	The variants causing the most infections are K.P. 3 and K.2, which are mutations from Omicron.
1:53.0	Many of the symptoms are similar to other respiratory tract infections.
1:58.0	Soar throat, cough, congestion, runny nose, fatigue, muscle aches and headache.
2:04.0	G.I. Symptoms, fever and trouble breathing may also be present.
2:08.0	One explanation for the increasing cases is holiday travel,
2:12.0	and exceptionally hot weather driving people inside to escape the heat.
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