Why Long COVID Causes Shortness of Breath—and What We’re Learning to Do About It

November 15, 2025 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Why Long COVID Causes Shortness of Breath—and What We’re Learning to Do About It

Author: John Murphy Affiliation: COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation 🌬️ Introduction: When Breathing Doesn’t Bounce Back For many people recovering from COVID-19, the virus doesn’t simply go away. Weeks or months later,…[...]

November 3, 2023 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Molecular mechanisms of COVID-19-induced pulmonary fibrosis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Authors: Peng Pi1† Zhipeng Zeng1† Liqing Zeng1 Bing Han1 Xizhe Bai2 Shousheng Xu3*Front. Pharmacol., 03 August 2023, Sec. Respiratory Pharmacology, Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2023.1218059 As the outbreak of COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory…[...]

September 26, 2023 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease—The Tip of the Iceberg

Namrata Kewalramani, MD,a,b,∗ Kerri-Marie Heenan, MB Bch, BAO,c Denise McKeegan, MB Bch, BAO, MSc,c and Nazia Chaudhuri, MD, PhDd Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2023 May; 43(2): 389–410. Published online 2023 Mar3. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2023.01.004 PMCID: PMC9982726PMID: 37055095 The proportion…[...]

April 18, 2022 | John Murphy | Leave a Comment

Alzheimer’s-like signaling in brains of COVID-19 patients

Authors: Steve Reiken,Leah Sittenfeld,Haikel Dridi,Yang Liu,Xiaoping Liu,Andrew R. Marks First published: 03 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12558 Abstract Introduction The mechanisms that lead to cognitive impairment associated with COVID-19 are not well…[...]