Well, Now - "People Feel Like They’re Drowning": The Long Covid Survivors Left Behind

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

While most of the world moves on from Covid-19, millions of Americans remain in limbo: Those living with Long Covid. Long Covid symptoms are vast and can impact all parts of the body: from gastrointestinal tract issues and fatigue to autoimmune inflammation and cognitive impairment. On this week’s episode of Well, Now – Kavita and Maya talk with Dr. Wes Ely, an ICU physician based in Nashville, Tenn. As the co-director of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center, he is one of many doctors demanding our country’s leaders not to leave their patients behind. If you liked this episode, check out: Life After Lockdown Podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to wellnow@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hold that please level five. Thank you.
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0:04.0	Yeah, hi, nice to meet you.
0:06.0	Hi, now the most important thing to know is to Ertz and the Bipartis plug sale.
0:10.0	The most important thing is what?
0:12.0	The single most important thing is to Ertz and the channelized Bingus of the
0:14.7	by parcel rise plug sale and you'll be fine.
0:17.1	Uh, yeah, that sounds important.
0:19.6	Does work chat will sound like gibberish to you?
0:22.2	Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community
0:25.1	to help you get through those tricky conversations.
0:27.6	Making work makes make sense.
0:29.0	LinkedIn knows how. You're listening to Well Now,
0:35.0	You're listening to Well Now, Slate's Podcast on Health and Wellness.
0:39.0	I'm Maya Feller.
0:40.0	And I'm Kavita Patel.
0:42.0	Since the COVID-19 pandemic began,
0:44.9	it is estimated Maya that potentially
0:47.0	tens of millions of people, perhaps even more,
0:50.0	who were infected with COVID-19,
0:52.0	have developed what we now come to know as long COVID.
0:55.9	It often involves a range of disabling symptoms, everything from brain fog, fatigue,
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