Five Years Of COVID-19: The Long Haulers

It’s been five years since cities around the country like Chicago shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, millions of people have been affected. Whether it’s coming down with the virus, losing a loved one during the pandemic or living with the consequences of infection, also known as long COVID. To find out more about what we do and do not know about the chronic condition, we turned to Dr. Jerry Krishnan, a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Amy Pope, and long COVID patient and patient researcher. We also checked in with Mike Bielaczyc, a licensed clinical social worker and long-hauler support group leader at Northwestern University, and Chimére L. Sweeney, a long COVID patient consultant. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.