Toolkit: What We Know About Long COVID

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Bob gets answers to your questions about long COVID from pulmonologist Lekshmi Santhosh and neurologist Jennifer Frontera. They cover who’s getting it, what treatments are available, why the vaccines seem to help some people, and much more on this Toolkit. Plus, Dr. Bob weighs in on the new CDC guidelines on masking.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Here are the new CDC guidelines on masking that Dr. Bob talks about in today’s episode: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html
Survivor Corps is a support group for COVID-19 survivors: https://www.survivorcorps.com/
Body Politic is also a COVID-19 support group: https://www.wearebodypolitic.com/covid19
Read about Akiko Iwasaki’s work on long Covid: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
Here’s article from The New York Times about regaining your senses of taste and smell that Lekshmi mentioned: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/well/live/covid-anosmia-smell-training.html
Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/

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1:02.9	Welcome to In the Bubble.
1:03.9	I'm Dr. Bob Wachter.
1:06.0	Before we get to today's topic, long COVID, let me say a few words about the CDC guidelines
1:10.9	that came out last week.
1:13.0	I think they surprised a lot of us.
1:15.8	First of all, let's reflect on how these guidelines, which markedly relax masking and
1:22.1	distancing requirements, how they came about- they came about for one reason, and that is
1:26.8	the miraculous effectiveness of our vaccines.
1:31.4	As we think back over the last 18 months or so, COVID has delivered a lot of bad surprises,
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