Odd Lots - Introducing: Breakthrough

Episode Date: October 8, 2021

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a mysterious new illness that has stumped doctors attempting to treat symptoms that last for months and potentially years. It has changed the way hospitals work and forced healthcare officials to prepare for the next pandemic. Covid has also opened the door to revolutionary technology: messenger RNA vaccines. It’s a technology that never could have been proven so quickly outside the crucible of that first pandemic year, 2020, and it holds big implications for the future of medicine. Breakthrough launches on Oct. 19. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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they had no idea that a smell component was going to be a long-term feature of my illness. Symptoms like a loss of smell can persist for months in some COVID survivors. Others describe debilitating brain fog and memory problems that turn their life upside down. Is it ever going to be normal again? Am I ever going to be able to be able to be,

me. I don't feel like me. So I don't cry, but I don't feel like me anymore. It appears long COVID will be with us well beyond the pandemic itself. It's just one of the ways in which the coronavirus has reshaped our world. On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we're exploring the legacy of COVID and the medical mysteries baffling scientists. I'm Jason Gale, a senior editor at Bloomberg News. And I'm Naomi Kreski, the health reporter at Bloomberg. COVID has also reshaped medical science and opened the door to revolutionary technology. In this series, we'll look at how the pandemic is changing healthcare,

the ways in which experts are preparing for future outbreaks, and what scientists and patients are doing to get answers to medical problems in real time. If anyone tells you that they know what's going on, they're lying to you. Like, don't trust that person. And that's the one person you can't trust is the person who tells you categorically they know what's going on. And I've certainly seen a lot of clinicians doing that. In the second half of breakthrough, we'll tell you the story of how Messenger RNA vaccines were created and how they could be used in the future to help treat other diseases like malaria and cancer.

This technology could never have proven itself so quickly outside the crucible of that first pandemic year, 2020. It may well win some researchers a Nobel Prize. It will almost certainly have big implications for the future of medicine. Looking back, it's easy to forget that none of this was a given. I was worried that the human vaccine might be 50% effective, and we wouldn't know why. You'll hear from the people who raced to make the vaccine, and the moment they found out how well it would work. This was incredible.

Yeah, this was just breathtaking. In this moment, we understood, hey, there's a vaccine for mankind. And what it could mean for the future. Wherever protein is needed, it can be applied. That could be 6,000 genetic diseases. Breakthrough launches on October 19th. Subscribe to Prognosis Today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. On April 4th, 2023, around 2 in the morning, a man was found stabbed multiple times on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco.

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