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Long COVID the Answers

Kojala Medical

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 28

A new weekly series all about Long COVID. Dr Funmi Okunola MD interviews a wide range of experts in the field about the disease, its possible causes, the assessment, diagnosis and management and the mechanisms of rehabilitation and recovery from Long COVID.

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Episode 10 - Brain Injury (Brain Fog) and Long COVID with Professor James Jackson

Season 2 · Episode 10

Saturday, September 7, 2024 • Duration 32:17

Professor James Jackson PsyD is a licensed neuropsychologist and internationally renowned expert on Long Covid and its effects on cognitive and mental health functioning. He is a research professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt, University School of Medicine Consortium in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA. He is interviewed by Dr Funmi Okunola about the nature and rehabilitation of Brain Fog in Long COVID.

He is also author of “Clearing the Fog from Surviving to Thriving with Long COVID – A Practical Guide”.

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1. “Clearing the Fog from Surviving to Thriving with Long COVID – A Practical Guide”.

2. The Long COVID Handbook by Gez Medinger & Professor Danny Altmann

3. MoCa Test

4. Mini Mental State Exam

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Episode 9 - The Economic Cost of Long COVID – with Professor David Cutler

Season 2 · Episode 9

Saturday, August 31, 2024 • Duration 33:48

THIS PODCAST WAS RECORDED ON THE 17th JANUARY 2024

Professor David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University in the U.S.A., research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the USA talks about the economic cost of Long COVID.

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1 Otto Eckstein

2 Cutler DM, Summers LH. The COVID-19 pandemic and the $16 trillion virus. Jama. 2020

Oct 20;324(15):1495-6.

3 Cutler DM. The economic cost of long COVID: an update. Publish Online July. 2022.

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Episode 8 - Primary Care and the Emergence of Long COVID with Dr Richard J. Baron M.D.

Season 2 · Episode 8

Saturday, August 24, 2024 • Duration 27:07

Dr Richard J. Baron MD - President and CEO of the American Board of Internal

Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, talks to Dr Funmi

Okunola about how Primary Care needs to adapt to provide medical services for

Long COVID and other forms of chronic disease.

1. The Patient Centered Medical Home, History, Seven Core Features, Evidence and

Transformational Change – Published by the Robert Graham Center, 2007

2. Homer CJ, Baron RJ. How to scale up primary care transformation: what we know and what we need to know?. Journal of general internal medicine. 2010 Jun;25:625-9.

3. The Aspen Policy Strategy Institute

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Episode 7 - Diagnosing Long COVID in Primary Care - with Professor Michelle Harkins MD

Season 2 · Episode 7

Saturday, August 17, 2024 • Duration 24:05

Dr Funmi Okunola MD interviews Professor Michelle Harkins MD – Professor of Medicine at

the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico in the USA about how to diagnose Long COVID in Primary Care. Professor Harkins runs a Post COVID clinic and Project Echo telehealth program that provides real time education and case discussions for community health practitioners for the management of Long COVID in the community.

1. Pinto MD, Lambert N, Downs CA, Abrahim H, Hughes TD, Rahmani AM, Burton CW,

Chakraborty R. Antihistamines for postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 2022 Mar 1;18(3):335-8.

2. Brennan CM, Nadella S, Zhao X, Dima RJ, Jordan-Martin N, Demestichas BR,

Kleeman SO, Ferrer M, von Gablenz EC, Mourikis N, Rubin ME. Oral

famotidine versus placebo in non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a

randomised, double-blind, data-intense, phase 2 clinical trial. Gut.

2022 May 1;71(5):879-88.

3. Tosato M, Calvani R, Picca A, Ciciarello F, Galluzzo V, Coelho-Júnior

Episode 6 - Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), Long COVID & its Management with Professor Todd Davenport

Season 2 · Episode 6

Saturday, August 10, 2024 • Duration 37:22

Professor Todd Davenport is the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA is interviewed by Dr Funmi Okunola about Post Exertional Malaise in Long COVID and ME/CFS.

REFERENCES

1. Davenport TE,Stevens SR, Stevens J, Snell CR, VanNess JM. Lessons from myalgic

encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome for Long COVID: Postexertional

symptom exacerbation is an abnormal response to exercise/activity. J Orthop

Sports Phys Ther. 2022.

2. Long COVID Physio’s Pacing Video

3. Carruthers et al International Consensus Criteria for ME, which contains the criteria for PENE

4. Walitt B, Singh K, LaMunion SR, Hallett M, Jacobson S, Chen K, Enose-Akahata Y, Apps

R, Barb JJ, Bedard P, Brychta RJ. Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic

encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Nature Communications. 2024 Feb

Episode 5 - Gez's Personal Long COVID Story & Advocacy - with Gez Medinger

Season 2 · Episode 5

Friday, August 2, 2024 • Duration 38:05

Highly respected investigative science journalist, filmmaker, Long COVID advocate and Long Hauler Gez Medinger talks about his personal Long COVID story in this interview with Dr Funmi Okunola.

REFERENCES

1 The Long COVID Handbook by Gez Medinger & Professor Danny Altmann

2. Patcai J. Is ‘Long Covid’similar to ‘Long SARS’?. Oxford Open Immunology. 2022 Jan

1;3(1):iqac002.

3. Gez Medinger You Tube Channel

4. The Shawshank Redemption

5. PACE trial & ME/CFS & Shepherd CB. PACE trial claims for recovery in myalgic

encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome–true or false? It’s time for

an independent review of the methodology and results. Journal of Health

Psychology. 2017 Aug;22(9):1187-91.

Episode 4 - Diagnosing and Managing Long COVID in Children with Dr Danilo Buonsenso MD, PhD

Season 2 · Episode 4

Saturday, July 27, 2024 • Duration 31:47

This is the second of a two-part series of episodes about Paediatric Long Haulers. Dr Danilo Buonsenso is a is a Physician-Scientist and a specialist in Infectious Diseases in children. He talks with Dr Funmi Okunola MD about how to diagnose and manage children with Long COVID.

Dr. Buonsenso currently works at the Department of Women, Child and Public Health at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Italy.

Research Articles and Links:

1. Bygdell M, Kindblom JM, Martikainen J, Li H, Nyberg F. Incidence and characteristics in children with post–COVID-19 condition in Sweden. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jul3;6(7):e2324246-.

2.Buonsenso & the Kids

3.Long COVID Kids

4.IP4C - Brackel CL, Noij LC, Vijverberg SJ, Legghe CL, Maitland-van der Zee AH, Van Goudoever JB, Buonsenso D, Munblit D, Sigfrid L, McFarland S, Anmyr L. International Care programs for Pediatric Post-COVID Condition (Long COVID) and the way forward. Pediatric research. 2024 Jan 29:1-6.

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Episode 3 - Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms of Long COVID in Children

Season 2 · Episode 3

Saturday, July 20, 2024 • Duration 27:20

In this episode Dr Danilo Buonsenso explains the underlying mechanisms of Long COVID in children.

Dr Danilo Buonsenso MD Phd is a Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist and Physician Scientist who currently works at the Department of Woman, Child and Public Health at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. He has a PhD in Public Health and Biomolecular Sciences and is currently doing his MSc in Infectious Disease at Oxford University.

References

1. The WHO definition of Post-COVID condition in children.

2. Bygdell M, Kindblom JM, Martikainen J, Li H, Nyberg F. Incidence and characteristics in children with post–COVID-19 condition in Sweden. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jul 3;6(7):e2324246-.

3. Thors V, Bjornsdottir KL, Love TJ, Haraldsson A. Long COVID in Icelandic Children: A Matched Cohort Study of Nonspecific Symptoms Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection. The Pediatric InfectiousDisease Journal. 2024 Mar 1;43(3):226-33. (behind a paywall)

4. Delogu AB, Aliberti C, Birritella L, De Rosa G, De Rose C, Morello R, Cambise N, Marino AG, Belmusto A, Tinti L, Di Renzo A. Autonomic cardiac function in children and adolescents with long COVID: a case-controlled study. European Journal of Pediatrics. 2

5. BaldiF, De Rose C, Mariani F, Morello R, Raffaelli F, Valentini P, Buonsenso D.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children With Long COVID: A Case-controlled

Episode 2 - The Pathophysiology of Long COVID - featuring Professor Danny Altmann

Season 2 · Episode 2

Saturday, July 13, 2024 • Duration 36:49

Professor Danny Altmann is a Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London in the UK. In this interview, Professor Altmann will describe the functional changes in the body that occur with Long COVID.

1. Altmann DM, Whettlock EM, Liu S, Arachchillage DJ, Boyton RJ. The

immunology of long COVID. Nature Reviews Immunology. 2023

Oct;23(10):618-34.

2.Elneima O, McAuley HJ, Leavy OC, Chalmers JD, Horsley A, Ho LP, Marks M,

Poinasamy K, Raman B, Shikotra A, Singapuri A. Cohort profile:

post-hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study. International Journal

of Epidemiology. 2024 Feb 1;53(1):dyad165.

3.Douaud G, Lee S, Alfaro-Almagro F, Arthofer C, Wang C, McCarthy P, Lange

F, Andersson JL, Griffanti L, Duff E, Jbabdi S. SARS-CoV-2 is

Episode 1 - What is Long COVID? ft. Prof. Danny Altmann

Season 2 · Episode 1

Friday, July 5, 2024 • Duration 33:26