Long Covid: Past, Present and Future – with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly

Want to keep track of our work? Sign up for PoP BC updates, actions, public health information, and announcements.

For International Long Covid Awareness Day coming up on March 15 we did an interview with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly on Long Covid Past, Present and Future.

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly is clinical epidemiologist with the Washington University in St. Louis and the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Centre and Chief of the Research and Development at the Veteran’s Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

Dr. Al-Aly led work which provided the first systematic characterization of the after effects of a Covid-19 infection and he is one of the most well known Long Covid researchers in the world.

In 2024, Dr. Al-Aly testified before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as an expert witness on Long Covid.

He was named one of the 100 most influential people in health in 2024 by TIME100 Health.

Archived Briefings from Protect Our Province BC

Dec 11, 2025: Science as a Candle in the Dark: A Discussion about Measles, HIV and COVID 19

Join us for this discussion about how we are experiencing Carl Sagan's predicted "rejection of the enlightenment of science and return to superstition and darkness" - featuring these three remarkable physicians: Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, Dr. Victor Leung and Dr. Julio Montaner.

March 29, 2025: Long is Real in Kids Too!

Join us for an interview with Dr. Peter Rowe, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Centre Chronic Fatigue Clinic at Johns Hopkins University as he gives us new hope for the treatment of Long COVID in Children. He explains that because of the parallels between ME/CFS and Long COVID in children, his 30 years of researched treatments for ME/CFS can be used to help children with Long COVID now while we are waiting for RCT ( randomized clinical trials) to occur.

Oct 30, 2024: Long Covid – A Mass Disabling Event

Please join us for the POP BC live briefing on Long COVID: A Mass Disabling Event on Wednesday, October 30th at 1 pm as we discuss the important topic of Long COVID with Kayli Jamieson and Connie Chan, Long COVID survivors, and Dr. Ric Arseneau, Internal Medicine Specialist and Long COVID Physician and Director of one of the clinics treating Long COVID in BC.

SEE ALL ARCHIVED POP BC BRIEFINGS

More News from Protect Our Province BC

State of Public Health in BC

No lessons were learned. This year, despite the lessons that could have been learned and implemented, BC public health was as ill prepared as it was last year for the viral "respiratory season”. * And so on January 9, a new record number of hospital admissions was set at 10,345 . For more up to… Continue reading

No More Stolen Childhoods

Second in a series of two posts by an Alberta mom. Find the first post here: No One Is Listening To Me Image: The Rona Lisa by Rosie Pidgeon, a young Belfast art student living with Long Covid. To view her artwork, please visit @art_byrosie_ Alberta Long Covid Kids During the Delta wave in October… Continue reading

No One is Listening to Me

Alberta Mom Photo: @BerlinBuyers My first confirmed Covid infection was in fall 2022 at a time when the few Covid protections we had left only applied to healthcare settings. I knew I was at higher risk of developing Long Covid as I am a working age woman. This terrified me as my son had already had… Continue reading

SEE ALL ARCHIVED POP BC NEWS