This month marks four years since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

So where do we stand now?

The pandemic is not over until there is meaningful treatments and a cure for long COVID.

It's Wednesday, March 20th and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm Sci-ry producer Rasha Arredi.

Four years ago this month, the world as we know it changed.

Schools shut down, offices shuttered, and we hunkered down at home, armed with our purel and canned foods,

trying to stay safe from a novel deadly virus, COVID-19.

Back then, most of us couldn't fathom just how long the pandemic would stretch on.

Here's Ira Flato. And now four years later, some 1.2 million people have died in the US. Nearly 7 million have been

hospitalized here as a result of COVID. There are plenty of people with long COVID, the COVID that keeps on giving.

So what have we learned about how COVID attacks the body?

What can be done for long COVID sufferers?

And what can we expect in the future?

Joining me to talk about all of this is Hannah Davis, co-founder of the Patient

Lead Research Collaborative in New York and Dr. Akiko Iwasaki immunologist at Yale Medical School in New Haven,

Connecticut. Welcome back to Science Friday.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for having back.

Nice to have you.

Well, at this point, hospital emergency rooms are not overflowing.

Vaccinations are there.

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