What It’s Like to Have COVID-19

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Friends and writers F.T. Kola and Karan Mahajan have both recently recovered from COVID-19. They join to talk about immunity, survivor’s guilt, and how outcomes depend on a strange calculus of privilege and chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jim.
0:05.0	Hey, Hey, Catherine.
0:06.3	Quick update for anyone who listened yesterday.
0:10.2	Van's wife had his baby and her name is Charlotte.
0:15.0	So there we go.
0:17.0	That's a beautiful thing happened yesterday.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	So today, Jim, you know, like when we started talking a few weeks ago, I was really like scared in the abstract, but I didn't become, it didn't really hit me until I got a call that one of my friends had it.
0:35.0	And I wanted to talk to them, but they were kind of in the throes of it, and it was a really difficult time,
0:42.0	and so we didn't end up talking, but... a really
0:45.0	up for talking to us today.
0:49.0	That'd be great.
0:50.0	A voice from the other side.
0:52.0	Right. You know, A voice from the other side.
0:53.0	Right.
0:54.0	You know, they're one of the superhuman people we've been talking about.
0:58.0	Maybe.
0:59.0	Maybe.
1:00.0	Maybe.
1:01.0	There's this idea that they could be immune now.
1:03.0	Yeah, I mean, likely.
1:05.0	I'd expect that they are.
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