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Speaker 1: long term feature of my illness. Symptoms like a loss

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Speaker 1: Others described debilitating brain fog and memory problems that turned

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Speaker 1: It appears long COVID will be with us, well beyond

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Speaker 1: the pandemic itself. It's just one of the ways in

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Speaker 1: which the coronavirus has reshaped our world. On Breakthrough, a

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Speaker 1: new series from the Prognosis podcast, we're exploring the legacy

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Speaker 1: health reporter at Bloomberg. COVID has also reshaped medical science

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Speaker 1: I was worried that the that the human vaccine might

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Speaker 1: In this moment they understood, hey, there's a vaccine for

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Speaker 1: six thousand genetic diseases. Breakthrough launches on October nine. Subscribe

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