Your Long Covid Questions, Answered

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A study published in the journal Nature this week documented yet more symptoms – including hair loss and sexual dysfunction – associated with long covid, a syndrome the CDC reports afflicts roughly a fifth of people who contract Covid-19. The Nature study also found that long covid sufferers are more likely to be young, members of ethnic minority groups, and economically disadvantaged. We’ll talk about the latest long covid science and hear from long haulers about how they have adjusted to life with a chronic illness. Guests: Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine and executive vice president, Scripps Research Institute Angela Meriquez Vázquez, long COVID patient and President of Body Politic Paige Morrisey, 25-year-old COVID long-hauler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.2	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The sheer number of COVID infections now hitting California means we can expect to see more long COVID cases, according to doctors and researchers. And now a new UK study finds more symptoms associated with long COVID than the documented fatigue brain fog shortness of breath
1:44.8	and muscle aches. These symptoms include hair loss and sexual dysfunction. And people of color,
1:50.7	women and younger people may be at higher risk of becoming long haulers. This hour, we look at what
1:56.6	the latest research on long COVID is telling us and learn how people who have it are coping.
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2:07.3	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The LA Times reports one in 14 California adults currently has long COVID, according to data analyzed by the CDC.
2:21.5	That means they have symptoms of COVID infection lasting more than three months.
2:25.5	A recent study in the UK has added more symptoms of long COVID on top of exhaustion and breathing and cognitive problems, including prolonged loss of smell, fever,
2:36.7	hair loss, and sexual dysfunction.
2:39.7	The range of symptoms can be debilitating as well as the mental and emotional toll.
2:44.8	And joining me now is Dr. Eric Topol, Professor of Molecular Medicine,
2:48.7	an executive vice president of Scripps Research Institute.
2:52.4	Dr. Topal, thank you so much for being with us.
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