Olivia Willis
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783 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard May 2021
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In some cases, it may still be the virus itself that's causing the damage.
We know that the acute stage of the infection, the virus can kind of attack various different organs.
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That's right.
And the symptoms in this kind of ongoing sense seem to be really wide ranging as well.
So it's possible that, say, the lungs, for example, we know that if the virus infects the airways, it can make it difficult to breathe.
And that may explain some effects later on that people still are struggling with breathlessness and so on.
But researchers suspect that what's going on is high levels of inflammation in the body, which are triggered, you know, when the immune system is trying to rid the body of the infection, that that may be actually causing some of those ongoing effects.
Well, there seems to definitely be similarities there.
So we know that post-viral fatigue is obviously seen in other viral infections.
Well, there's been some interesting comparisons drawn between what COVID-19 long haulers, they describe themselves, what they're experiencing and the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
We know that chronic fatigue syndrome is linked to infections, specifically the Epstein-Barr virus.
That is controversial.
But so that's a kind of interesting idea that's emerging.
But COVID-19 also seems to be behaving in slightly different ways to other coronaviruses.
I mean, if you look at something like cardiovascular symptoms, we know that in the original SARS outbreak, cardiovascular symptoms were there, but they were generally kind of self-limiting and not persisting beyond the period of recovery.
And what we're seeing with COVID is that not only can it cause heart inflammation in people who show mild symptoms as well as more severe, it seems there's some research which is a little bit controversial, but some research which suggests people who have recovered from COVID-19 who weren't hospitalised to begin with still have some kind of heart abnormality several months later.
I suspect so, but I think it's difficult to say while we're still at the kind of, I don't know, nine month mark of the pandemic.
I believe they are.
I believe their results are coming out quite soon.
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