Tegan
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763 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Tegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm really glad that I'm a thousand kilometres away from you as we have this chat.
It's the show where we answer the health questions everyone is asking.
And today's question comes from Jive.
Jive says, "'Coughs lasting weeks after a respiratory virus have always been annoying, but since COVID, going to work with a residual cough feels inappropriate, but also unreasonable to expect people to stay home for a month plus.'"
Jive's asking, "'How can we know for sure whether our residual cough is not infectious to others, and when is it okay to go to work?'
So let's talk about coughing.
What is coughing?
Sorry, it wafts it up out of your airways and then you yuck.
Yuck.
Human bodies are disgusting.
Yeah, it makes sense that you're trying to cough something up and we can wallow in the disgustingness of that as much as we like.
But this is it.
We really should have.
It's so disgusting.
But again, bodies, man.
But I'm thinking about Jive's question and how long a cough sometimes hangs around for me after I've been sick or if I'm a bit run down and my throat's a bit scratchy because I've been, I don't know, yelling too much or something because I've been out having too much fun.
I often find that I have a cough that isn't bringing anything up.
It's almost like it's just that skin.
Is it skin when it's on the inside of your throat?
It's irritated and it's sort of just this reflexive action that my body wants to do.
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