Long COVID Breakthrough: Spike Proteins Persist in Brain for Years

January 17, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Long COVID Breakthrough: Spike Proteins Persist in Brain for Years

By Helmholtz Zentrum München, Facebook Twitter Pinterest Telegram Researchers have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persists in the brain and skull bone marrow for years after infection, potentially leading to chronic inflammation…[...]

January 16, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards

Story by Jamie Ducharme, MSN In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she…[...]

January 15, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Stony Brook study: Long COVID risk increases with multiple infections, vaccination status in 9/11 essential workers

By Lisa L. Colangelolisa.colangelo@newsday.com@lisalcolangelo, Newsday People who have had multiple bouts of COVID-19, had it severely, and those who were unvaccinated when first infected had an increased risk of developing long COVID,…[...]

January 14, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, LAURA UNGAR and MIKE STOBBE, A.P. Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have…[...]

January 11, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Does nerve damage contribute to long COVID symptoms?

Almost all post-COVID neuropathy linked to a potentially treatable immune dysfunction MGH News and Public Affairs A new study suggests that some patients with long COVID have lasting nerve damage…[...]

January 10, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Two-Year Longitudinal Study Reveals That Long COVID Symptoms Peak and Quality of Life Nadirs at 6–12 Months Postinfection

Zoe O Demko, Tong Yu, Sarika K Mullapudi, M Gabriela Varela Heslin, et. al.Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2024, ofae027, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae027 Abstract Background Few longitudinal studies available characterize long COVID outcomes…[...]

January 4, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ face increased risk of death and many other health problems

Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications A year into the pandemic, most people are familiar with the immediate symptoms of COVID-19 infection, which include breathing problems and fever. But reports of…[...]

December 30, 2024 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’ face increased risk of death and many other health problems

By Tristan Horrom, VA Research Communications, Journal Nature After three year into the pandemic, most people are familiar with the immediate symptoms of COVID-19 infection, which include breathing problems and…[...]

December 28, 2024 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Immune Responses in Discharged COVID-19 Patients With and Without Long COVID Symptoms

Yeming Wang, Li Guo, Dan Cui, Hui Zhang, Qiao Zhang, et. al. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 4,fae137, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae137 Abstract The immune mechanisms of long coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) are not yet fully understood.…[...]

December 27, 2024 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

The knowns and unknowns of long COVID-19: from mechanisms to therapeutical approaches

Roxana Gheorghita1,2Iuliana Soldanescu3Andrei Lobiuc2, et. al. Front. Immunol., 03 March 2024, Volume 15 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1344086 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been defined as the…[...]