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Today, Explained

Your long Covid questions, answered

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Millions of people have long Covid; countless more could get it. Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez answers questions from Today, Explained listeners about the condition that has even doctors bewildered. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This has all completely taken over my life.

0:07.0

I have to plan out my days and weeks in terms of energy expenditure, like it's a limited

0:12.2

and finite resource.

0:13.6

I really wish more people were talking about long COVID.

0:17.4

It's like my whole life has shrunk and gotten smaller.

0:24.1

I didn't need any medications at all before COVID.

0:26.8

I had no idea what life would long term work in this was like before.

0:32.6

You have questions about long COVID.

0:34.4

We have some answers from a doctor.

0:36.7

What we know, what we don't know, and how we can help.

0:40.1

That's coming up on today's point.

0:41.8

There are millions of people like me who are living with this, who have been looking for

0:45.9

answers for over two years now.

0:49.3

So I haven't completely given up hope.

0:54.7

It's just hard to hold on to it.

1:01.2

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1:03.8

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1:09.6

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1:14.6

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1:16.6

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1:18.4

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1:23.2

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