Why COVID-19 Lingers
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Never in the modern scientific era have so many people been infected with the same virus in such a short period of time. For many survivors of coronavirus, symptoms hang on for weeks or even months. Bloomberg senior editor Jason Gale reports on efforts for finding ways to prevent such cases of post-Covid-19 illness in the future.
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| 0:41.7 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 90 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Our main story? Most people who survive COVID-19 recover within a few weeks. But some |
| 0:51.4 | suffer from debilitating pain and fatigue for months. |
| 0:56.0 | Now, researchers are trying to better understand what causes these long-term symptoms |
| 1:01.6 | and what can be done, if anything, to avoid them in the future. |
| 1:07.1 | But first, here's what happened today. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you. But first, here's what happened today. A top World Health Organization official is backpedaling on her comments over the role asymptomatic carriers play in spreading COVID-19. |
| 1:28.5 | Maria Van Kirkhove said on Monday that asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus is very rare. |
| 1:35.9 | That comment revived a controversy over how the virus spreads. |
| 1:41.4 | Today, she says she was referring specifically to two or three studies. New York City |
| 1:49.6 | reached a milestone today. It reported just 1% of its residents tested positive for the coronavirus |
| 1:56.8 | for the first time since the beginning of the outbreak. The city had reached a high of 71% testing |
| 2:04.4 | positive in April. The city is now conducting more than 30,000 tests a day. And much of the world |
| 2:15.4 | continues to open up. The Eiffel Tower in Paris will reopen following its longest shutdown since World War II. |
| 2:25.2 | France also unveiled a massive rescue plan for its struggling aerospace industry, and the European |
| 2:30.8 | Union is considering a leader's summit to discuss measures for speeding up a recovery. |
| 2:37.7 | The United Nations says that the pandemic, combined with a global recession, is contributing to a worldwide food emergency. |
| 2:46.5 | The organization released a policy brief that says these factors could set the stage for a health |
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