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Today, Explained

The enduring mystery of long Covid

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symptoms. Vox’s Julia Belluz joins the Unexplainable podcast to sort out what’s known and what remains mysterious about long Covid. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We kicked off the week today explained with an episode about how badly the COVID-19 surge

0:12.4

in India is going.

0:14.1

And we're going to end the week with a very different type of story about people who just

0:19.1

haven't been able to put this in their rear view yet.

0:22.9

People who haven't even come close.

0:24.8

Today, we're going to hear about Long Hall COVID.

0:28.5

Something like at least 10% of people who get COVID continue to experience symptoms

0:34.2

that science just doesn't fully understand yet.

0:38.1

And our friends over at unexplainable recently did a great episode getting into what we know

0:45.0

and what still remains a mystery about Long COVID.

0:50.1

Take a listen.

0:51.1

And if you haven't subscribed to the show yet by the end of this episode, I'm sure you'll

0:56.3

kind of be like, what am I doing?

0:58.5

Even.

1:00.4

So punch that button.

1:01.8

Thanks for listening.

1:17.3

This is unexplainable.

1:18.3

I'm Noah Massenfeld and I'm here with Julia Blues, who's a senior health correspondent

1:22.8

at Vox.

1:23.8

Julia, what's the unanswered question you've been looking into?

1:27.4

So I've been covering the pandemic since the beginning and I've been looking into this

1:31.3

group of coronavirus patients called Long Hallers.

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