Our visitor on this episode has insights into lengthy COVID each as a researcher and a affected person. Jessica Felicio/Unsplash
Join us for this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient as we communicate with Margot Gage Witvliet who has insights into lengthy COVID each as a affected person and an epidemiologist.
If you don’t pay shut consideration to information about COVID, you would possibly suppose the pandemic is almost over. But for the thousands and thousands of individuals worldwide affected by lengthy COVID, that couldn’t be farther from the reality.
And the variety of these experiencing long-term signs retains rising: At least one in 5 of us contaminated with the virus go on to develop lengthy COVID.
The results of lengthy COVID are staggering. Researchers say it will probably result in: blood clots, coronary heart illness, injury to the blood vessels, neurological points, cognitive impairment, nerve injury, persistent ache and excessive fatigue.
And there is no such thing as a remedy for lengthy COVID.
Recent stats present that 80 per cent of lengthy haulers are girls.
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So why don’t we hear extra about lengthy COVID? Why haven’t governments warned folks in regards to the dangers we face with an infection?
It may be that this debilitating illness is basically missed due to who will get it: Almost 80 per cent of longhaulers are girls.
And within the United States, the place our visitor on this episode is from, lots of these affected by the prevailing situations of COVID are girls of color, with Black and Latinx folks most definitely to get the sickness.
Our insightful visitor for this dialog on lengthy COVID is Margot Gage Witvliet, assistant professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Margot is a social epidemiologist who research well being disparities, together with as they relate to lengthy COVID and has offered her analysis findings to the United States Health Equity Task Force on COVID-19.
Margot can be a Black lady dwelling with lengthy COVID and has created a help and advocacy group for ladies of color.
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Sources
The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next, Stories and Advice from Twenty Long-Haulers and Experts Edited by Fiona Lowenstein
The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever By Ryan Prior
Transcript
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Don’t Call Me Resilient was produced in partnership with the Journalism Innovation Lab at UBC and with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
