Toolkit: What We Know About Long COVID

Dr. Bob gets answers to your questions about long COVID from pulmonologist Lekshmi Santhosh and neurologist Jennifer Frontera. They cover who’s getting it, what treatments are available, why the vaccines seem to help some people, and much more on this Toolkit. Plus, Dr. Bob weighs in on the new CDC guidelines on masking.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

Here are the new CDC guidelines on masking that Dr. Bob talks about in today’s episode: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html

Survivor Corps is a support group for COVID-19 survivors: https://www.survivorcorps.com/

Body Politic is also a COVID-19 support group: https://www.wearebodypolitic.com/covid19

Read about Akiko Iwasaki’s work on long Covid: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid

Here’s article from The New York Times about regaining your senses of taste and smell that Lekshmi mentioned: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/well/live/covid-anosmia-smell-training.html

Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ 

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