Depression, “brain fog” and the long, uneven road back to normal John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation For millions of Americans, recovering from COVID-19 did not end when […]
The Itch That COVID-19 Left Behind
For most people, an itch is an annoyance. A mosquito bite, dry skin or an allergic rash produces a familiar sensation, the hand scratches, and the episode ends. John Murphy, […]
When COVID Takes Your Balance
Falls among older Americans were already a public-health crisis. Then came a virus capable of disturbing oxygenation, blood pressure, cognition, muscle function and balance — and a vaccination campaign in […]
Why Does COVID-19 Devastate Some People and Barely Touch Others?
John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation The mystery of COVID-19 may ultimately be less about the virus than about the person it encounters There is a peculiar cruelty […]
Five Years of Evidence on COVID-19 Severity and Clinical Phenotypes
John Murphy, CEO The COVID-19 Long haul Foundation: Original Research Study An Integrated Analysis of Government, Public, Electronic Health-Record, Genomic, and Published Clinical Databases, 2020–2025 Abstract Background: COVID-19 is frequently […]
Toward a Blood-Based Diagnostic Test for Long COVID
An Evidence Synthesis and Framework for a Multimarker Diagnostic Signature John Murphy, COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Abstract Objective To determine whether currently available clinical, immunological, proteomic, metabolomic, vascular and serological evidence […]
SARS-CoV-2 and the Laboratory Hypothesis: A Scientific Examination of the Evidence
John Murphy, COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Summary The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains one of the most consequential unresolved questions in modern infectious-disease science. The central issue is not whether SARS-CoV-2 can […]
Vaccinated Long COVID May Be a Different Disease
How vaccination may alter the biological architecture—not merely the probability—of post-COVID illness John Murphy,, The COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Abstract The dominant question surrounding COVID-19 vaccination and Long COVID has been […]
Cancer After COVID-19 Vaccination: Separating a Safety Signal From a Causal Claim
What population-scale data can—and cannot—tell us about an increasingly consequential hypothesis John Murphy, The COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Summary The possibility that COVID-19 vaccination might influence cancer incidence or progression has […]
Why Do Some People Recover from SARS-CoV-2 Infection While Others Develop Long COVID?
A Multidimensional Analysis of Predictors of Persistent Disease John Murphy, COVID-19 Long-haul Foundation Abstract ObjectiveTo determine which clinical, demographic, immunological, virological and treatment-related factors are associated with recovery from SARS-CoV-2 […]