What are the potential long-term effects of COVID-19? ‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’, hosted by Larissa Thackray, PhD, associate professor of Infectious Diseases, talks in Episode 29 withZiyad Al-Aly, MD, FASN, assistant professor in the Division of General Medical Services, Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center, and Chief of Research and Education Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System, about his work studying the substantial burden of disease associated with COVID-19 and ‘long COVID’. Current work in his lab continues to determine how to define ‘long COVID’ and the risk factors associated with developing different manifestations of this disease.
An additional 28 episodes about other doctors and scientists researching COVID-19 and other viruses are available on ‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’ at Google, Apple, Amazon music and other podcast providers or at lmtv.podbean.com.