Department of Medicine

Kate Redmond interviews two COVID ‘long haulers’ about coronavirus symptoms that they have had for months. She also speaks with Bill Cornwell [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] of UCHealth in Aurora on the medical phenomena of patients who are not getting better long after their covid diagnosis.

At hospitals run by the University of Colorado, Michelle Barron says the median age of COVID patients has dropped by more than a decade. It’s now people in their late 40s. “A lot of them are requiring ICU care, whereas before, a lot of them were more so just on the floor and still requiring hospitalization but not quite as sick.”

“Interestingly, some of our patients who’ve had COVID in the past have noted that their symptoms improve after receiving the COVID vaccine. People will say that all of a sudden their shortness of breath or their fatigue start to get better. However, this is not everybody,” said Rebecca Keith, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].