The long haul of long Covid

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Three years after the official declaration of a pandemic, 65 million people - one in 10 who had Covid-19 - still have symptoms. Some are so ill they are yet to return to work. The Economist’s health editor, Natasha Loder, examines the science behind long Covid and hears about the challenges as researchers try to unravel the cause behind a condition associated with around 200 symptoms.

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0:00.0	Hi, Namulantakombo here and I'm excited to tell you that my award-winning podcast, Dear
0:07.0	Daughter, is back for a second season and it's available now.
0:11.8	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:16.6	At first when I got COVID, I thought I'd be back after 10 days.
0:24.0	Sorry.
0:25.0	Don't it was a month?
0:31.0	Then I started to think three months.
0:36.0	Sorry.
0:37.0	It's okay.
0:42.0	Anne Bairer, a palliative care physician in Montreal, Canada, caught COVID in December
0:56.0	2020 and has yet to recover.
0:59.5	She has long COVID and she's not alone.
1:03.2	A report in January estimated that at least 65 million people across the globe will develop
1:08.8	a long COVID.
1:09.8	That's one in ten of those infected.
1:13.3	Long COVID is defined by the World Health Organization as having symptoms that persist for longer
1:18.2	than 12 weeks.
1:19.2	But for some, like Anne, it can be years of ill health.
1:23.8	I'm Natasha Loda and this is the Long Hall of Long COVID on the BBC World Service.
1:30.7	We'll be hearing from scientists about ongoing drug trials, what lies ahead and what we're
1:36.0	learning about how long COVID affects the body.
1:39.0	There's a group we present with just enormous fatigue when we exercise those participants
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