We’ll talk about chronic illness in its varied forms, from long-haul Covid to chronic fatigue syndrome to autoimmune conditions and Lyme disease and more. So this conversation will be scientific and personal for both of us. Meghan’s, “The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness,” is due out in March of next year, and it’s terrific.

My own, “The Deep Places,” is just out this week. And we’ve both written books about what we learned from the experience. But the main reason I wanted to invite her on the show is that we have both suffered ourselves from mysterious chronic illnesses that somewhat resemble long Covid. Meghan O’Rourke is the editor of The Yale Review and an award-winning poet and journalist who has done excellent reporting on long Covid for The Atlantic. My guest today is uniquely suited to discuss these questions. And that dissonance raises all sorts of important questions about how our health care system and our society deal with chronic illness. All the while, millions of Americans are suffering. Skeptics argue for psychological explanations or blame cultural hysteria. Physicians still don’t know exactly what triggers the condition or how best to treat it. That condition has come to be known as long Covid.īut in many ways, it’s still shrouded in mystery.

In the spring of 2020, stories started popping up about young healthy adults who had apparently recovered from Covid-19 infections, but weeks or even months later, were still experiencing terrible debilitating symptoms - heart palpitations, crippling fatigue, extreme brain fog, shortness of breath - the list goes on. I’ve known and admired Ross since I began in journalism, so I’m really looking forward to these. This week, my Times Opinion colleague, Ross Douthat, takes the helm for shows exploring chronic illness and the divisions within conservatism. While I’m on paternity leave, we’ve got an all-star team of guest hosts.

I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” Transcript What Living ‘At the Edge of Medical Knowledge’ Reveals about American Healthcare The journalist Meghan O’Rourke discusses America’s chronic illness epidemic and what it reveals about our health care, culture and society.

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