The Long And Short Of Long COVID with Dr. Ashish Jha

What A Day

Crooked Media

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As many as one in five people who became ill with COVID-19 have reportedly developed long-term symptoms that last well after they’ve recovered from the initial infection. Informally called “Long COVID,” the condition is associated with chronic fatigue, brain fogginess, headaches, and more. We interview Dr. Ashish Jha from the Brown School of Public Health, who’s launched a new study to look at Long COVID’s effects on people, health care, workplaces and more. And in headlines: Germany holds a parliamentary election, the World Health Organization resuscitates the investigation into COVID-19’s origins, and Biden gets an even bigger victory margin in Arizona’s GOP-led 2020 election audit. Show Notes: Brown School of Public Health: “Global Epidemics: Long COVID” – https://bit.ly/3ibhiJl For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Monday September 27th, I'm getting a russet.
0:09.8	And I'm Josie Defi Rice and this is What a Day.
0:12.8	Where we're working through our feelings about Elon Musk and Grimes breaking up by asking
0:17.0	strangers if we can drive their tezlas.
0:19.6	Yeah, maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't, either way, we get to drive a very nice electric
0:24.4	car. On today's show, Germany holds parliamentary elections plus a hamster is making more successful
0:37.3	investments than most humans.
0:39.2	Yeah, the jokes write themselves, but first we look at one of the more confounding aspects
0:43.9	of COVID-19's effects on the body, long COVID.
0:48.0	So you've probably heard of this so-called condition you may have known people in your
0:51.0	life who have experienced it or have even experienced it yourself, but the CDC has defined
0:55.9	long COVID as a set of symptoms of person experiences for or more weeks after being infected.
1:02.1	A length of time that is atypical and anecdotally they can range from fatigue to headaches, loss
1:08.0	of smell, and what is often described as brain fog.
1:11.9	But there's still a lot left to learn about why this is happening, how many people it's
1:14.8	happening to, and what can be done at a societal level for it.
1:18.2	Yeah, and this is a topic of a great deal of research at the moment.
1:22.2	Just a few days ago, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, described
1:26.6	the symptoms as a quote, deep mystery.
1:28.7	And he talked about a study involving 30,000 COVID-19 survivors.
1:33.5	That's all according to Bloomberg.
1:35.4	And then earlier this month, the Brown School of Public Health announced a new initiative
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