Hacker News with Generative AI: Long COVID

5 years later, long Covid still a medical mystery: What scientists have learned (nbcnews.com)
Since the World Health Organization characterized Covid as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, scientists don’t fully understand why some people develop disabling chronic conditions after the initial viral infection.

Health, Science, Long COVID, Pandemic

6 points by amichail 22 days ago | 0 comments

Spike Protein Lingers in Brain, Fuels Long Covid (neurosciencenews.com)
A new study reveals that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein remains in brain-protective tissues and skull bone marrow for years after infection, potentially driving long COVID’s neurological symptoms.

Long COVID, Neuroscience, SARS-CoV-2, Health, Brain

9 points by amichail 124 days ago | 0 comments

Many People with Long Covid Have Signs of Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Proteins (directorsblog.nih.gov)
In 2021, NIH launched the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, a nationwide research program, to fully understand, diagnose, and treat Long COVID.

Long COVID, SARS-CoV-2, Health, Research, Science

9 points by ivewonyoung 151 days ago | 2 comments

1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023) (giorgialupi.com)
For more than three years I’ve been suffering with a debilitating, chronic illness most people call Long Covid.

Long COVID, Health, Personal Experiences, Chronic Illness, Medical Research

87 points by simonebrunozzi 153 days ago | 112 comments

We Just Got More Evidence That Long Covid Is a Brain Injury (sciencealert.com)
The exact nature of long COVID is still coming to light, but we just got some of the best evidence yet that this debilitating condition stems from a brain injury.

Long COVID, Brain Injury, Health, Science, Research

41 points by bethemoly 163 days ago | 13 comments

&t MRI scans show damage to brain 'control center' behind long Covid-19 symptoms (medicalxpress.com)
Damage to the brainstem—the brain's 'control center'—is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe COVID-19 infection, a study suggests.

Medicine, Neuroscience, COVID-19, Brain Damage, Long COVID

6 points by wglb 170 days ago | 0 comments

Covid-19 reinfection ups risk of long Covid, new data show (cidrap.umn.edu)
A new survey study reveals that people who had two COVID-19 infections were more than twice as likely—and those who had three or more COVID-19 infections were almost four times more likely—to report long COVID as those with one infection.

COVID-19, Health, Research, Long COVID

5 points by amichail 182 days ago | 0 comments

Nicotine patches as a possible treatment for long covid and me/cfs (biomedcentral.com)