Long COVID Newsletter

“Science is magic that works.” Kurt Vonnegut #RESEARCH Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19: understanding and addressing the burden of multisystem manifestations – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Mitigating neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19-related critical illness – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and management of long COVID: an update – Molecular Psychiatry Myocarditis…

“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.” Albert Einstein #RESEARCH Detrimental effects of COVID-19 in the brain and therapeutic options for long COVID: The role of Epstein–Barr virus and the gut–brain axis – Molecular Psychiatry Long covid: nearly half of doctors affected can no longer work full time, finds…

“Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed.” Thomas L. Freidman #RESEARCH Persistent serum protein signatures define an inflammatory subcategory of long COVID – Nature Communications The Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines to Prevent Long COVID Symptoms: Staggered Cohort Analyses of Data from the UK, Spain, and Estonia – Preprints with…

“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” Mother Teresa #RESEARCH Two-year follow-up of patients with post-COVID-19 conditionin Sweden: a prospective cohort study – The Lancet SARS-CoV-2 airway infection results in the development of somatosensory abnormalities in…

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.” Herbert Hoover #RESEARCH Long COVID: pathophysiological factors and abnormalities of coagulation – Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism COVID-19 illness severity and 2-year prevalence of physical symptoms: an observational study in Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark – medRxiv* preprint…

“Nearly every great discovery in science has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer.” Paul A. Meglitsch #RESEARCH A prospective cohort study assessing the relationship between long-COVID symptom incidence in COVID-19 patients and COVID-19 vaccination – Scientific Reports Co-production of a feasibility trial of pacing interventions for Long…

“In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a ‘discovery’ of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.” Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar #RESEARCH Monocyte migration profiles define disease severity in acute COVID-19 and unique features…

“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.” James A. Garfield #RESEARCH SARS-CoV-2 infection causes fibrotic pathogenesis through deregulating mitochondrial beta-oxidation – Research Square preprint Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation, and an uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 – bioRxiv [Preprint] Innate immune cell activation causes lung fibrosis…

“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.” Max Planck #RESEARCH Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Prior to Infection and Risk of Post–COVID-19 Condition – JAMA Internal Medicine Exaggerated responses to a virus long gone – Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is caused by abnormal…

“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Isaac Newton #RESEARCH Long-term cardiac symptoms following COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis –…