Long COVID
Subject in Medicine
Long COVID has come up in 2 episodes across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Joshua RomanAmerican cellist, composer, and TED speaker, former principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony
Roman says COVID forced him to confront issues he could have faced much earlier.
“It totally forced me into facing something that I could have faced a long time ago”
TED Radio Hour: What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 24:55
Roman credits his primary care doctor with recognizing possible long COVID and referring him for expert help.
“I'm very, very lucky that my primary care doctor knew about and understood enough about long COVID”
TED Radio Hour: What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 12:23
Roman describes his long COVID fatigue as unlike ordinary tiredness, like having weights inside his body.
“It's this feeling like I'm wearing weights inside of my body or something that I just lifting an arm can be so difficult”
TED Radio Hour: What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 11:42
Paule JosephChemosensory researcher and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, co-director of the National Smell and Taste Center
Joseph argues that persistent smell loss should be treated as an invisible disability, citing a firefighter who needed workplace accommodations.
“we really needed to start thinking about this as a disability. This is one of those things that we consider an invisible disability”
TED Radio Hour: Big mysteries explained through your senses (Sep 18, 2026) · Listen from 36:18
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 2 episodes
Episodes
Big mysteries explained through your sensesTED Radio Hour · Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with astronomer Mark Whittle, smell researcher Paule Joseph and artist Yiyun Kang about perceiving hidden realities through the senses.
What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating changeTED Radio Hour · Sep 11, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with cellist Joshua Roman about how long COVID upended his lifelong devotion to the cello, his faith, and his debut album Immunity.