Understanding Long COVID
Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh discusses the spectrum of symptoms and long-term effects of COVID, emphasizing the need to avoid false binaries and acknowledge the heterogeneity in experiences. She highlights the potential impact on clotting, cognitive function, and unmasking of pre-existing conditions.In this clip
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The Ezra Klein Show
Two Years Later, We Still Don’t Understand Long Covid. Why?
Related Questions
What are the cognitive effects of long COVID?
Long COVID can be among the worst of afflictions. I have a client who has been exhausted all the time for years, has constant bad headaches, and experiences weird little symptoms of many kinds that come and go. She was a flight attendant and got a severe case of COVID before people were aware of it. There are no answers as to what really is going on. When waiting for a biopsy after a mammogram, she said she was almost hoping she had cancer because it would provide a diagnosis and an explanation for her symptoms. I was hoping you would have read the literature and have some ideas. I would love to hear how you would delineate the problem. So would she.
Could long COVID cause unknown symptoms?