Re:Distinguishing features of Long Covid identified through ...
by Animats on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:19PM
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> Clear molecular signals of pathology mean that minimizers' claims that long covid is just psychosomatic or malingering are unsupported.
Yes. That's clear now. The UK has an organized program to figure out what's going on with long COVID.[1]
It's been known for a year or two now, from MRI scans, that long COVID is associated with brain and lung inflammation. But the underlying mechanism is not yet known.
This UK longitudinal study [2] is especially useful. "Three in five people with long COVID have impairment in at least one organ (seen in MRI scans) and one in four have impairment in two or more organs, in some cases without symptoms." This has been going on long enough now that the longitudinal studies, where the same patients are re-tested, are starting to produce results.
Yes. That's clear now. The UK has an organized program to figure out what's going on with long COVID.[1] It's been known for a year or two now, from MRI scans, that long COVID is associated with brain and lung inflammation. But the underlying mechanism is not yet known.
This UK longitudinal study [2] is especially useful. "Three in five people with long COVID have impairment in at least one organ (seen in MRI scans) and one in four have impairment in two or more organs, in some cases without symptoms." This has been going on long enough now that the longitudinal studies, where the same patients are re-tested, are starting to produce results.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-research-into-treatme...
[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768231154703