The COVID-19 Long Haul Foundation

Treatment, Referral & Educational Support for COVID-19 Illnesses & Vaccine Injury

Treatment Landscape in Long COVID Has Expanded Beyond “Supportive Care”

A Mechanism-Driven Reframing of Therapeutic Development in Post–Acute SARS-CoV-2 Disease John Murphy, M.D, M.P.H., D.P.H. President COVID Long-haul Foundation Conceptual Shift and Therapeutic Reclassification ABSTRACT For much of the early […]

Persistent Viral Reservoirs and Immune Dysregulation in Long COVID

John Murphy, M.D., M.P.H., D.P.H., President Covid-19 Long-haul Foundation The Central Discovery Reshaping Post-Acute Sequelae Research Abstract Long COVID (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, PASC) has emerged as a multisystem […]

Energy depletion in long-COVID: etiology, physiology, pathology, and clinical findings of exhaustion

John Murphy, M.D., MPH, DPH, President COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Abstract Persistent, debilitating fatigue and exertional intolerance are among the most frequent and disabling features of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection […]

Long Covid: Hormone Imbalances and/or Rather Complex Immune Dysregulations? 

Christian A Koch, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2024, bvae043, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvae043  Commentary Approximately 5% of all individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) […]

Long COVID and brain inflammation: unravelling mechanisms and potential therapies

Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari1,2*†Jacob Raber3*†Karem H. Alzoubi1,2 Patients with Long COVID often experience persistent brain-related symptoms, including brain fog, mood changes, and dizziness (1–3), likely driven by neuroinflammation even after the […]

🧪 COVID Spike Protein and Kidney Damage: Stage 3B Illness, Fluid Retention, and Electrolyte Recovery

As research into Long COVID and post-vaccination syndromes deepens, 2025 peer-reviewed studies have identified a troubling link between spike protein persistence and kidney damage, particularly in patients progressing to Stage […]

Long COVID: damaged mitochondria in muscles might be linked to some of the symptoms

Caroline Dalton, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics, Sheffield Hallam University It’s estimated around 3% of people in the UK experience long COVID – persistent, long-lasting symptoms after a COVID-19 infection. Long […]

Potential molecular mechanisms of chronic fatigue in long haul COVID and other viral diseases

Carl Gunnar Gottschalk, Daniel Peterson, Jan Armstrong, Konstance Knox & Avik Roy  Infectious Agents and Cancer volume 18, Article number: 7 (2023) Cite this article, A Correction to this article was published on 24 April 2023 Abstract Historically, COVID-19 emerges as one of […]