Our visitor on this episode has insights into lengthy COVID each as a researcher and a affected person. Jessica Felicio/Unsplash
Be a part of us for this episode of Don’t Name Me Resilient as we communicate with Margot Gage Witvliet who has insights into lengthy COVID each as a affected person and an epidemiologist.
When you don’t pay shut consideration to information about COVID, you may suppose the pandemic is almost over. However for the tens of millions 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: A minimum of 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 possibly result in: blood clots, coronary heart illness, harm to the blood vessels, neurological points, cognitive impairment, nerve harm, persistent ache and excessive fatigue.
And there’s no remedy for lengthy COVID.
Current stats present that 80 per cent of lengthy haulers are ladies.
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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 could be that this debilitating illness is essentially neglected due to who will get it: Virtually 80 per cent of longhaulers are ladies.
And in the USA, the place our visitor on this episode is from, a lot of these affected by the prevailing situations of COVID are ladies of color, with Black and Latinx folks almost definitely to get the sickness.
Our insightful visitor for this dialog on lengthy COVID is Margot Gage Witvliet, assistant professor at Lamar College 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 USA Well being Fairness Job Power 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 Lengthy COVID Survival Information: Tips on how to Take Care of Your self and What Comes Subsequent, Tales and Recommendation from Twenty Lengthy-Haulers and Consultants Edited by Fiona Lowenstein
The Lengthy Haul: Fixing the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Lengthy Haulers and How They Are Altering Healthcare Perpetually By Ryan Prior
Transcript
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Don’t Name Me Resilient was produced in partnership with the Journalism Innovation Lab at UBC and with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Analysis Council of Canada.