John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation Executive finding The available evidence supports three conclusions simultaneously: There is, however, strong evidence that hospital mortality fell dramatically during 2020 even […]
When Government Becomes the Speech Police
John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic produced a legitimate public-health emergency. It also produced something far more troubling: a test of whether the federal government […]
Long COVID and the Reactivation of Latent Viruses
John Murphy, CEO, The COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation A mechanistic synthesis of Epstein–Barr virus, persistent SARS-CoV-2, immune dysregulation, and host susceptibility Abstract Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), […]
COVID-19, Influenza and the Common Cold: How Dangerous Are They Really?
John Murphy, CEO, The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation A comparison of the major respiratory infections—and why the common cold belongs in a completely different category The public discussion of respiratory […]
Long COVID as a Multisystem Postviral Disorder
John Murphy, CEO, The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation A mechanistic synthesis of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection, immune dysregulation, autoimmunity, vascular dysfunction, metabolic disturbance, and host susceptibility Summary Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 […]
Neurological Long COVID
John Murphy, CEO, The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation A mechanistic synthesis of post-acute neurological sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection Abstract Neurological manifestations constitute one of the most consequential and biologically heterogeneous […]
Long COVID Is Real. The Mystery Now Is Why It Takes So Many Forms.
John Murphy, CEO, The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation An evidence-based examination of what scientists now know about the biology of post-COVID illness—and why the search for a single cause may […]
Long COVID as a Spectrum of Distinct Biological Phenotypes
A mechanistic synthesis of the emerging phenotype-based model of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation Abstract Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 […]
David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme
By Melissa Quinn/ CBS News Washington — A former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a scheme to hide […]
Long COVID Is Real. The Mystery Is Why It Takes So Many Forms
Six years after the pandemic began, researchers are no longer asking whether patients are sick. They are trying to understand why the virus seems to leave behind such radically different […]