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

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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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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0:38.8	I'm Maya Feller.
0:40.0	And I'm Kavita Patel.
0:41.4	Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it is estimated Maya that potentially
0:46.2	tens of millions of people, perhaps even more, who are infected with COVID-19, have developed
0:51.8	what we now come to know as long COVID.
0:55.0	It often involves a range of disabling symptoms,
0:57.9	everything from brain fog, fatigue, dizziness,
1:01.6	cognitive impairment, strange neural symptoms that can come and go
1:06.4	lasting seconds to months, and above all emotional depth and depression that it's been hard for me to even describe as we're
1:15.5	still seeing it unfold. And while doctors and other allied health professionals
1:21.0	are still grappling with how best to treat long COVID.
1:24.0	Many patients their lives have simply been turned upside down.
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