Sick of COVID: The Long Haulers

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Meet the COVID-19 patients who are still suffering the after-effects of the disease, months after catching the virus. They weren't ill enough to be hospitalised, and thought they'd recover after a fortnight. Now, though, they're on a rollercoaster of bizarre symptoms. They're calling it 'long COVID' - but what is it? Plus, in the news: children seem to harbour more coronavirus than adults; a new space mission to Mars gets under way, and the science of cows licking each other... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.1	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:20.2	in science, technology and medicine. With me Phil Sansum.
0:23.6	And with me, Chris Smith, and this week we meet the people still suffering the after effects of
0:28.7	COVID-19 months after catching the virus. These patients weren't ill enough to be hospitalized and they thought they were going to recover
0:35.6	after just a week or two.
0:37.2	Now they're on a roller coaster of bizarre symptoms.
0:40.6	They're calling it long COVID, but what is it?
0:44.0	Plus in the news, can children harbour more coronavirus than adults,
0:48.0	and a new space mission to Mars gets underway?
0:51.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:57.0	Now first up, previous studies have suggested that children may be poor
1:07.0	spreaders at the coronavirus and may even be less susceptible to catching it.
1:10.8	And in this regard, the UK Chief Medical Officer Chris
1:13.8	Whitty has called reopening schools a priority and in weighing up the risks and
1:17.7	benefits described how children are much less likely to come down with serious
1:21.8	COVID-19.
1:23.0	But a new study out of the Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
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