What's New With COVID-19?
1A
NPR
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Health officials say RSV, flu, and a new strain of COVID are leading to an uptick in respiratory illnesses in most states. And the Centers for Disease Control say JN.1, the latest COVID variant, is spreading quickly.
Meanwhile, research on long COVID is telling us more about how the virus can linger in the body as a chronic disease.
We discuss the new variant and what we're learning about long COVID.
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| 0:16.0 | If it seems like everyone around you is getting sick, it might be the trifecta of viruses |
| 0:29.0 | circulating the country. |
| 0:30.8 | RSV, flu, and a new strain of COVID-19 are leading to an uptick in respiratory illnesses in most states. |
| 0:37.7 | The CDC says the latest COVID variant, JN1, is spreading quickly. |
| 0:43.0 | As of October 2023, more than 25% of adults in the U.S. who've had COVID have experienced |
| 0:49.5 | long COVID. |
| 0:50.7 | That's according to the CDC household pulse survey. |
| 0:53.0 | So what's the latest on COVID-19 and what have we learned about long COVID? |
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