Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Jay Desai and Kate Murray about long covid.Dr. Desai - experienced epidemiologist - serves as the Section Manager of Chronic Disease and Environmental Epidemiology at the Minnesota Department of Health.Kate Murray serves as a Program Coordinator for Long Covid and Post Covid Conditions at the Minnesota Department of Health.Listen along as these two share their wealth of knowledge on the lasting effects of covid.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on long COVID. And we've got two great experts with us today that will be sharing their thoughts about it. We've got a great crew that always puts our shows in really good, good shape. And they include Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Sheridan Nygaard, Deandra, Howard, and Matthew Campbell. Thanks to all of you guys.
They either are involved in research for the background for the show or marketing or production. So it's a great, wonderful crew and thank you very, very, very much. Clarence Jones is my partner in crime on this show. It's a great, great honor to work with him. Wolde's episodes. This is episode 68, which is amazing. We've been at it that long. So Clarence, it's always great. So thank you.
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So, all right, today we have two great guests, colleagues of mine that I have worked with for a long time, Jay Desai and Kate Murray. Jay heads up the chronic disease epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health.
He received his doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, currently leads the Minnesota Department of Health Long COVID Program, along with other things, sickle cell data collection, Minnesota cancer reporting system, et cetera. He's been involved in a lot of things.
I worked with Jay when he was at the health department on his first round, when he was involved with the diabetes unit, and we were great, great colleagues. I've always been impressed with Jay because somehow or other, he always asks the good, hard question. And we don't always have the answers, but at any rate, he always asks some really great questions. So thanks, Jay, for being with us.
Kate Murray, Program Manager for Long COVID and Post-COVID Conditions at the Minnesota Department of Health. She spent a long time dealing with COVID at the Department of Health, a 20-month assignment at the Department of Health when everything was going kind of crazy and everything was, there were a lot of things to do for sure.
She holds a Master of Public Health in Administration and Policy from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Health Sciences from South Dakota State University. So I want to thank you both sincerely for being on Health Chatter. So I'm going to start this off by asking this simple question. Long COVID. So here we go.
It's like, I don't understand why we don't have long flu, long cold. long allergies, long whatever. So what is this deal with long? Is it just something that was dubbed for COVID? Or what's the deal here? Where did this long idea come from? Because people get sick and they have these symptoms afterwards on a lot of different, a variety of different diseases and entities. But
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