Empowered Patient Podcast

Dr. Betty Raman is the Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford and has been studying the effects of COVID-19 since the pandemic began to better understand the effects of COVID on multiple organ systems. Betty elaborates, "So, at Oxford, we've led a program when thousands of patients recovering from COVID-19 had volunteered and enrolled in our study. We have undertaken comprehensive assessments on magnetic resonance imaging, as well as cardiopulmonary exercise testing and blood tests. "What has come out from all this work is that number one, a significant proportion of people are recovering from moderate to severe disease. But also, those with mild infections may have ongoing, lingering symptoms of fatigue, pain in various parts of the body, breathlessness, and difficulty breathing when walking, for instance. So, post-exertional breathlessness, post-exertional release." "So, we were quite interested in this new compound that Axcella wanted to test out