Part One: Long Covid’s Early Origins

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: Part One: Long Covid’s Early Origins
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:32:56
• Published: 2021-10-19 10:00

With a loss of smell and a high fever, New Yorker Fiona Lowenstein had a classic case of Covid-19 before she knew what a classic Covid case was. But there was more she didn't know: she was also about to join a burgeoning group we now know as “long haulers.” On the first episode of “Breakthrough,” a new series from the Prognosis podcast, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale traces the early origins of a patient-led movement that drew lessons from AIDS activism to demand that the medical establishment listen. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com