Folks with signs of lengthy Covid sit within the viewers as they hear throughout a Senate Committee listening to on Lengthy Covid earlier this 12 months. Lengthy Covid stays some of the vexing legacies of the pandemic.
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Folks with signs of lengthy Covid sit within the viewers as they hear throughout a Senate Committee listening to on Lengthy Covid earlier this 12 months. Lengthy Covid stays some of the vexing legacies of the pandemic.
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This week marks 4 years for the reason that outbreak of Covid-19 was formally declared a pandemic. One of the vital vexing legacies — one which science nonetheless hasn’t solved — is lengthy Covid. That is the debilitating situation that may develop within the aftermath of an an infection.
Hundreds of thousands of People live with the customarily debilitating signs that may embrace mind fog, shortness of breath, and low power. Some wrestle with easy each day dwelling duties like laundry and cooking.
4 years for the reason that pandemic hit, sufferers with lengthy Covid are nonetheless preventing for solutions.
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The reporting you heard on the prime of this episode was from Brianna Scott who additionally produced right now’s episode. It was edited by Scott Hensley and Courtney Dorning. Our govt producer is Sami Yenigun.
