Long COVID
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Sexual dysfunction, hair loss linked with long COVID
The symptoms, among others, join a list of better-known symptoms linked to long COVID.
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Long COVID’s grip will likely tighten as infections continue
“If we conservatively assume 100 million working-age adults have been infected, that implies 10 to 33 million may have long COVID.”
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How well do vaccines protect against long COVID?
“We also now have quite a lot of evidence that vaccination does reduce your risk of long COVID – probably because it reduces your risk of severe...
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Clinicians can help people with severe ME/CFS, even unseen
About a quarter of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome are homebound or bedbound, making medical office visits...
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Increasing data link ME/CFS, long COVID, and dysautonomia
Both ME/CFS and long COVID commonly involve numerous symptoms beyond the defining ones.
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Treatments explored to ease postviral symptoms of ME/CFS and long COVID
“There aren’t cures, but there are many management techniques to improve symptoms.”
From the Journals
One in eight COVID patients likely to develop long COVID: Large study
“This finding shows that post–COVID-19 condition is an urgent problem with a mounting human toll.”
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Why exercise doesn’t help people with long COVID
“We have participants in our study who had relatively mild acute symptoms and went on to have really profound decreases in their ability to...
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COVID-19 and IPF: Fundamental similarities found
“This biomarker could indicate who is at greatest risk for progressive fibrosis.”
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Long COVID comes in three forms: Study
“These data show clearly that post-COVID syndrome is not just one condition but appears to have several subtypes.”
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Immune response may explain brain damage after COVID-19
Antibodies appear involved in an attack on the cells lining the brain’s blood vessels.