Long Covid and chronic Lyme pose medical challenges

People with symptoms of chronic Lyme are often met with skepticism by mainstream medicine, largely because the condition is so difficult to diagnose and treat.

Now the presence of long COVID is making diagnosis more difficult because both long COVID and chronic Lyme disease have similar symptoms, such as body pain, fatigue and brain fog.

Isabella Cueto, a chronic disease reporter with our partners at STAT, joins us to discuss how scientists are studying both conditions in the hopes of discovering new treatments.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.