Coronavirus Conversations: Understanding and tracking 'long COVID'

The World
A COVID-19 patient is shown strapped to a yellow gurney with several medical staff moving along side in a blurred motion photograph.

Medical personnel wheel a bed with a coronavirus patient in critical condition as they prepare to transfer the patient by ambulance to a hospital in Aachen, Germany, April 14, 2021.

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Doctors around the world are working to understand “long COVID” — a lingering range of symptoms that persists in some people after they have initially recovered from COVID-19 illness. As part of The World's regular series of conversations with Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health about the pandemic, and as a special in our podcast feed, reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with Dr. Andrew Chan who addressed long COVID.

More of The World's Coronavirus Conversation series: https://theworld.org/coronavirus-conversations