Clearing the fog
- Season: Season 4
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From surviving to thriving with Long COVID .
An online transcript is available
Early in May 2023, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, announced an end to the COVID-19 Global Health Emergency. But Dr. Ghebreyesus was quick to add that thousands of people were still fighting for their lives in ICUs and many millions more were living with post-COVID health conditions.
On today's program we explore life post-COVID with Dr. James Jackson, author of "Clearing the fog: From surviving to thriving with Long COVID — A practical guide" (Little Brown Spark, 2023).
Dr. Jackson has been a pioneer in treating ICU survivors and that work prepared him to help patients as they emerged from the initial infection with SARS-CoV-2 and entered the uncharted -- and sometimes, baffling -- territory of Long COVID.
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Read an excerpt from Clearing the Fog.
Assistant Director
ICU Recovery Center,
Director of Long-term Outcomes
Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tenn.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- James Jackson PsyD
- Seán Collins
KEYWORDS
- long covid
- recovery from covid
- covid