If you can, I'd like you to think back to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was early 2020, and it was a scary time for everyone. In part there was just so much we didn't know.

It was an uncertain time for me as well. I was trying to cover the pandemic day in and day out on television and also on this podcast which back then

was called coronavirus fact versus fiction. I have to tell you I've been a doctor for

30 years now and up until that point, outside of HIV AIDS, I had not really seen a

brand new disease class emerge so quickly, so transmissible, so dangerous, so deadly.

There was a lot to learn, and we all had to do it quickly.

So now flash forward to 2023, more than three years later, and the truth is we are all still learning.

Perhaps no aspect of this pandemic has raised more questions than this mysterious

phenomenon now known as long COVID.

I've been treated as COVID for 97 days. I'm pretty much in the throes of it.

They are known as long haulers, diagnosed with COVID-19, but

months later, still experiencing symptoms. It's everything from blood clots, seizures, trimmers.

My stomach is not what it used to be.

A 2,22 survey from the National Center for Health Statistics

now estimates almost 7% of adults and more than 1% of children have struggled with

long COVID at some point.

That equates to millions and millions of people.

So as we continue this journey through the brain on the

podcast, I wanted to know how does long COVID impact the brain. Does the term

brain fog even come close to accurately describing what many people are experiencing?

And perhaps most importantly, what can we do about it?

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