The Latest on Long Covid

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

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, the latest research findings on Long Covid. What did a study on over a million people reveal about who's at risk of the condition and for how long? What research is now being done to discover the cause, and what role do reactivating dormant viruses like EBV, more normally the cause of glandular fever, play in the disease? Plus, the doctor disabled by two doses of Covid explains how her life has changed... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	Absolutely genius.
0:04.0	Get this.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	It's the show where we bring science.
0:08.0	What that essentially means is.
0:09.0	Discovery is the classes,
0:10.0	research, technology, unbelievable. Without further ado, this. questions research technology unbelievable
0:13.4	this is the naked scientists
0:17.0	you with the naked scientists it's Chris Smith and with James Tico and this week we are
0:21.1	gonna put now in the next 30 minutes long COVID under the microscope.
0:25.8	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. UK.
0:33.0	Long COVID is essentially what it says on the TIN.
0:39.0	Long COVID is essentially what it says on the tin.
0:42.0	Symptoms which persist long after a person is diagnosed with COVID-19.
0:46.1	This can mean different things for different people, however.
0:49.1	I spoke with clinical academic at King's College London,
0:51.9	Natalie McDermott about her personal experience with the condition.
0:55.6	Before I got COVID and before the pandemic, I was a very active person.
1:00.8	I had relatively recently returned from living in Sierra Leone for a long period
1:06.5	of time where I'd been doing research into Ebola and I guess in terms of my passions at that point certainly
1:12.4	career-wise I'm very passionate about
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