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Oct 2023
1h 3m

The Long Haul of Long Covid

NEJM Group
About this episode
This episode explores long Covid, an often-disabling but unexplained syndrome of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. How is it affecting millions of people, and what is being done about it? A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2309483. 
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