What causes long COVID?

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Published 2023-12-18
There are now at least 65 million people Worldwide struggling with symptoms months or years after first falling ill with COVID-19. Doctors and scientists don’t fully understand this multi-system condition but a new wave of research is underway.

Prof. Resia Pretorius and Prof. Douglas Kell were the first to discover unusual microclots in the blood of people with long COVID. The microclots are thought to cause symptoms by impeding blood and oxygen flow to the body’s organs and tissues. RAZOR’s Emma Keeling travels to Clinic St. George in Germany to meet Dr. Beata Jaeger and learn more about an experimental treatment given to long COVID patients to clear the blood of microclots.

Back in the UK Emma meets Dr. Asad Khan whose whole life has been turned upside down by the condition and is now involved in long COVID research. With millions around the world suffering - more research is urgently needed to better understand this dangerous post viral syndrome.

All Comments (21)
  • @therealdrbyte
    How to do a documentary about long covid without ever mentioning the elephant in the room
  • @marynoonan6111
    I remember coroners in America doing autopsies and people working in morgues doing embalming saying quite early on in the pandemic, about their findings of VERY abnormal blood clots they’d never seen before. Not micro clots, bloody huge clumps of the stuff. And they were immediately ridiculed as alarmist. I absolutely remember it.
  • @pallasashta9129
    Post-vac-syndrome is also a very important issue and should be consider
  • @SeedsofEcofrog
    We must never forget when they coerced the children for use as shields to temporarily and marginally "protect" adults.,
  • @lizarosa156
    Governments and corporations of each country should be taking care of the suffering peoples with free clean healthy shelter and free medical care.
  • @Robinsnest219
    My sister keeps getting jabbed and keeps getting covid. Shes had it like 4 times already. But she still goes in for every shot/booster. She just sent me a pic of her test that she's finally testing negative from her most recent bout with covid. So now she can come out of the house. Unbelievable.
  • @billsattic
    No jabs. No clots in my immediate family. My oldest son lives on his own and is fully jabbed. He now has Covid.
  • @davidpope7431
    Caused by the spike protein? Could this happen from vaccination as well?
  • @KBHeal
    Nattokinase, Serrapeptase, NAC, Quercetin, Bromelain, Milk Thistle, D3 & K2 (MK7)
  • @billkirkland9258
    Only the conspiracy theorist missed the clots and heart damage
  • @cheryllynn8926
    I started these symptoms before having COVID but soon after my Moderna vaccine. My immune system started to destroy my platelets.
  • @s1south
    I am an otherwise healthy female in my 30's, I was training 3-4 times a week before I got sick, full life. Now I cannot walk 10 minutes without being out of breath, exhausted, dizzy, heart palpitations.
  • @GM-jv9jz
    I never took the jabs and I also have long covid . Since Oct 2021 I still have loss of taste and smell, bad tinnitus, daily headaches and pressure,weak body. I am 61. I have SVT and covid made it worse. My symptoms to my dr just get ignored.
  • @scottwilson6467
    I do feel for all the people in the comments still suffering with covid long after they have caught it. I`ve had symptoms of covid since i caught it 6 months ago but its not as bad as what others have mentioned here. The sense of hopelessness alot of yous must be feeling right now must be absolutely awful and i wish all of yous full recovery soon !
  • @grazioso58
    Two great things in this video: 1/ openly mentioning fact that 0-12% people get this as a result of vaccination too 2/that they are trying to do something with these conditions on the treatment front unlike most doctors I met with so far here in the USA who either give you steroids or send you home and recommend visit to psychiatrist or dismiss one outright.
  • @Bee-2-the-Dee
    If 65 million people have long covid, can we also have the numbers of how many of those had a covid jab?