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What long COVID taught me about life (and data) | Giorgia Lupi

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Data isn’t just about numbers or trends — it’s about capturing the stories that shape our lives, says information designer Giorgia Lupi. Following a long COVID diagnosis, she tracked her symptoms meticulously over four years, the data culminating in a visual “New York Times” narrative that resonated deeply with many others suffering from chronic illness. Lupi invites us to consider data not as a rigid or objective truth, but as a living language used to better understand ourselves, offering a surprising shift in perspective — depending on where you look.

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So I started a podcast called On Drugs.

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We covered a lot of ground over two seasons, but there are still so many more stories to tell.

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This is TED Health, a podcast from the TED Audio Collective.

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I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.

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Data might seem like a cold,

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impersonal collection of numbers, but it can actually be a profoundly human tool for improving

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health and well-being. In this deeply personal talk, information designer Georgia Lupi

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shares how tracking her chronic illness helped her uncover patterns, gain insights, and ultimately

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find hope and healing.

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