by Sarah Hellewell, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/Uday Mittal, CC BY The COVID pandemic has introduced many scientific and medical terms into our everyday language. Many of us are now fluent in conversations about viral strains, PCR tests and mortality rates. “Brain fog” has joined these ranks to describe a now-familiar symptom of COVID and long COVID. But...
NANCY LAPID October 16, 2022, 1:43 PM By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – Most patients with COVID-19 who have lingering symptoms at 12 months are likely to still have symptoms at 18 months, new data suggest. The findings are drawn from a large study of 33,281 people in Scotland who tested positive for the coronavirus. Most...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO We’ve heard about brain fog, fatigue and headache as symptoms of long COVID. Now a new study points to another persistent effect of SARS-CoV-2, identified months after infection: reduced exercise capacity. In their study in JAMA Network on Oct. 12, 2022, researchers from UC San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General...
By Rich Haridy September 06, 2022 A study found around half of the long COVID patients examined fit the diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome Depositphotos A new study published in Nature Communications has added to the growing body of evidence reporting similarities between long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The research found around half of...
by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Visualization of heart inflammation by means of MRI: cardiologist Dr. Valentina Puntmann monitors a study participant at the Institute for Experimental and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging at University Hospital Frankfurt. Credit: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main After recovering from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, many people complain of persistent heart complaints, such...
Emily Waltz Particles of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (blue) inside an infected cell.Credit: NIH/SPL Researchers looking for biological drivers and markers of long COVID have linked the syndrome to herpes viruses, as well as to reduced levels of a stress hormone1. The exploratory study drew both praise and criticism from scientists contacted by Nature. “A major weakness...
Cassandra Willyard Illustration by David Parkins When Lara Hawthorne, an illustrator in Bristol, UK, began developing strange symptoms after having COVID-19, she hoped that they weren’t due to the virus. Her initial illness had been mild. “I’ve been triple vaccinated. I felt quite protected,” she says. But months later, she was still sick with a...
BY JOCELYN SOLIS-MOREIRA | PUBLISHED AUG 10, 2022 5:00 PM New federal support for long COVID research aims to shed more light on troubling and variable long-term conditions. Heike Trautmann/Unsplash Two years into the pandemic, and political leaders are finally taking strides towards understanding the complexities of long COVID. The Biden administration released two reports last week on August 3...
Hallie Levine July 20, 2022 New Yorker Lyss Stern came down with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020. She ran a 103-degree fever for 5 days straight and was bedridden for several weeks. Yet symptoms such as a persistent headache and tinnitus, or ringing in her ears, lingered. “Four months later, I still couldn’t walk...
by John Donne Potter, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock/Elizaveta Galitckaia The latest omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID. The two most concerning aspects of long COVID are its high...
