UK scientists find link between proteins related to blood clots and long Covid
Biomarker discovery indicates that sufferers from brain fog and fatigue post-virus could be treated with anticoagulants
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NIH trials fail to test meaningful long Covid treatments — after 2.5 years and $1 billion
Millions of Americans have suffered symptoms ranging from debilitating fatigue to heart issues, some still sick after initial coronavirus infections in the pandemic’s first wave. Congress provided the NIH with $1.15 billion to help patients in December 2020 — and the agency has now spent most of that funding, according to a detailed new budget breakdown shared with MuckRock and STAT, with the majority going towards observational research rather than clinical trials.
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Covid Long Haulers Spark Call for Increased Disability Funding
A new report calls for increased federal funding for rental assistance, nutrition programs and disability insurance.
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Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished
Across the country, doctors who jeopardized patients’ lives by pushing medical misinformation during the pandemic and its aftermath have faced few repercussions.
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NYC Has Left People With Long COVID Behind
NYC Has Left People With Long COVID Behind
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Column: U.S. government debunks COVID lab-leak conspiracy theory, enraging conspiracy theorists
The long-awaited report released Friday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence put the lie to the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, where the disease was first detected in humans.
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Millions who had COVID still can’t smell or taste, new study reports: ‘Many people never fully recovered those senses’
Nearly 28 million Americans may still be coping with COVID-related loss of taste and/or smell, according to new research from the Harvard University-affiliated Mass General Brigham.
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For covid long-haulers, the pandemic is far from over
The end of the public health emergency leaves many fearful they will be forgotten
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RFK Jr. says COVID may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews
There is no evidence it was designed to spare certain religious groups or ethnicities... Kennedy’s remark echoes well-worn anti-Semitic literature
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Covid could do for ventilation what cholera did for cleaner water systems
Could better ventilation have prevented covid from becoming a pandemic that killed millions of people?