Cracking the mystery of long covid | The Big Story

We've learned an awful lot about Covid-19 since the virus first hit us—but there are some things that we're still trying to solve. One of them, perhaps the most mysterious, is the phenomenon known as 'long covid'. We know much more about it now than we did in 2020, when some of those infected with the virus reported lingering symptoms, often debilitating ones.

But there is still so much to learn—everything from who's most vulnerable to it, how to protect yourself, how to effectively treat it and if we'll ever find a cure. As the pandemic has eased, fewer resources have been allocated to this disease—but there are researchers still trying to crack this case, and we'll talk to one of them.

GUEST: Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis; chief of research and development at the VA St. Louis Health Care System

[wildgardens]

Thanks so much for covering this! Long Covid, if you get a severe case of it, will take everything from you: career, savings, home, relationships, and that doesn't even touch on the physical suffering of the illness. This is a very hard road. I had some savings so I had a bit of a buffer but Ive lost of most that now which is scary. I now realise how easily people can become homeless even if you had a good education/job and thought you were set for life. Thanks to Dr Al-Aly for all his hard work trying to help us. For someone with severe Long Covid, there actually is no effective treatment at all, so there is pain on many fronts!

[theredboneking]

Has the Covid virus been isolated yet? How do we differentiate between the seasonal flu and Covid without isolation?

[Tf]

Thank you for reporting on long COVID. I never got better after my first time having COVID. It’s been 3 YEARS since I got COVID at Christmas and I’m STILL NOT BETTER. Thank you thank you thank you for reporting on it.

[Del-jg]

I live in Toronto, take transit, never got the clot shot and never got covid.

[chrisministerofsmartarsery]

Everyone else calls long Covid vaccine injuries.

[Del-jg]

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