If you do get COVID, and here we're asking for the people who haven't had it yet, is there anything you can do to keep it from becoming long COVID? The most obvious ongoing symptom of long COVID that we have is a loss of smell. Greg Rosen: Our medical system needs to acknowledge and better treat patients with chronic conditions. Mark Honner: We need to see we're building this plane while we're flying it.
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.
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