BBC World Service | The treatment programme targeting long Covid patients online - BBC Trending, BBC World Service @BBCWorldService | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Long Covid can ruin lives, and scientists are striving to understand the condition and beginning to get some early clues about possible treatments.

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While there are still more questions than answers, many have turned online for help. But could what they find there sometimes do more harm than good? Rachel Schraer goes undercover to investigate the Lightning Process, a controversial treatment programme being promoted online for long Covid.

00:00 Introduction
01:29 What is long Covid?
03:49 The Lightning Process
10:10 Evaluating claims of The Lightning Process
15:05 Phil Parker's response
16:09 Sarah's experience with long Covid and The Lightning Process
17:28 What is pacing?
19:32 Turning online for help with long Covid

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Reporter: Rachel Schraer
Producer: Paul Grant
Editor: Flora Carmichael

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