What Long COVID Is Like For These 14 People
A list of more efficient ways to seek answers, and some ideas about how to manage while you look for them!
A list of more efficient ways to seek answers, and some ideas about how to manage while you look for them!
Is this what normal now looks like?
Inside one neurologist’s quest to solve the mystery of COVID’s most puzzling complication.
Yes, say experts, but timing it right will be important.
It wasn’t until the end of the first year of the pandemic that Congress provided $1.2 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which led to a long Covid research initiative called Recover, in February 2021. A year and a half later, there are few treatments and lengthy delays to get into the small number of long Covid clinics. Frontline medical workers don’t have the clinical guidelines they need, and some are still dismissive about the condition.
Researchers at Houston Methodist looked into why some long COVID patients are still suffering from chest pain and shortness of breath.
The Long Covid blood samples were also awash with a category of “exhausted” T cells that can be recognized by certain markers they express. Such cells surge in the ongoing presence of pathogens—suggesting “the bodies of people with Long Covid are actively fighting something,” Putrino says.
A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.
More than two years after Georgia Linders first got sick with COVID, her heart still races at random times.
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