What Science Tells Us About the Mysteries of Long Covid

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health announced funding of more than $1 billion for research into the prolonged health consequences of COVID-19 infections. Since then, reports of what’s called long covid have only risen. Symptoms range from fatigue to coughing to chest pain and even to nerve pain. We’ll get the latest science on long covid, hear how often it occurs and what are its symptoms, and learn what’s being done to tackle it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.4	A mysterious illness is plaguing potentially
1:29.6	millions of people around the world who have caught COVID-19. These long haulers don't recover
1:35.7	completely afterabout with the virus. Instead, they're plagued by strange symptoms weeks and months
1:41.8	later. Some can't smell. Some are too tired to go to work, others can't
1:45.9	think straight. We'll dig into what we know and what helps people suffering from long COVID.
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2:15.6	Researchers from all over the world are working hard to figure out why some
2:19.9	people suffer from a slew of persistent symptoms long after they get COVID. Long COVID can include
2:26.5	lots of stuff, fatigue, coughing, nerve pain, and really hundreds of other ailments that just won't go away.
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