Figuring Out Long COVID – with Emma Wall

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Join Emma Wall, a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Crick as she explains the science of long COVID, who it affects, its symptoms and how it can be prevented and treated. *In this video* 00:00 Intro 02:54 What is long COVID? 07:48 A patient's perspective 10:30 Who can be affected? 13:50 What is the cause? 19:06 Symptoms 23:43 Can it be prevented? 27:44 Treatment 33:07 What's being done? 36:18 Studies and trials Long COVID has affected up to 2% of the entire UK population in the last five years, but we still don’t fully understand this often-debilitating disease. Emma explains how researchers are finding treatments for this new disease and how it’s important to embrace uncertainty to find solutions. Emma Wall leads clinical research for the UCLH-Crick partnership on COVID-19. Her team are focused on improving understanding of the biology of long COVID to discover new ways to both prevent and treat this complex disease. #health #science #LongCovid #LongCovidResearch *About Crick Crash Courses* Crick Crash Courses started life as talks for our staff, to help everyone working here, scientists and non-scientists, better understand the Crick's discovery research into how life works. We've now opened our doors to our crash course talks, giving everyone, everywhere, the opportunity to hear directly from our scientists as they investigate some of the most complex challenges in human health. *The Francis Crick Institute* The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical research institute and independent charity. We bring together people from different fields and specialisms to tackle some of the biggest questions in health and disease. Based in the heart of London’s Kings Cross, we’re the biggest biomedical research facility under a single roof in Europe and are home to a free public exhibition space. *Keep up to date with everything going on at the Crick* • https://www.crick.ac.uk • https://bsky.app/profile/crick.ac.uk • https://linkedin.com/company/the-francis-crick-institute • https://www.instagram.com/thefranciscrickinstitute • https://www.tiktok.com/@thecrick • https://www.facebook.com/TheFrancisCrickInstitute