long-COVID cognitive syndrome shares many features with the syndrome of cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI)
Brain fog is real.
COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs
Interesting Twitter thread about Omicron, Long COVID, and other related issues Thread by @IanRicksecker on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
Advice from someone who’s had Long COVID for two years
Finished reading: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat 📚Excellent book. I liked how much the author let us into his head in terms of living with chronic illness and pain. It helped me with insight and even more compassion for my Long COVID brother.
Long covid is destroying careers
Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake
Good article, but this statement makes it sound way too easy to recover: “Employers and patients need to understand that many long haulers should return to work on a limited, part-time basis, perhaps working from home, while they slowly work on building strength, he said.” In my brother’s experience, there’s no way to “slowly work on building strength.”
Good podcast about chronic illness in general
Long COVID and the Blind Spots of American Medicine
Chan School event seeks way forward for long COVID patients – Harvard Gazette
My brother is interviewed in this piece about Long COVID
Article about new vaccine ad that shows the toll of Long COVID on young people-Wash Post no paywall
Good use of NIH money at UMass
Liisa Selin and Anna Gil study links between viral infections and ME/CFS
50% of people who get COVID-19 have long-term effects
No answers, but these are good questions
is the threat of long covid an ongoing reason to avoid contracting the virus? Could endemic covid leave millions disabled with long-haul symptoms every year, creating a growing public health crisis?
Column One: How does COVID-19 change the brain? This scientist is finding out - Los Angeles Times
Opinion | Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicine - The New York Times
Supporting a Student with Long COVID, considerations for teachers
As students with long-haul covid return to school, many districts don’t fully know how to help
Good article about mRNA vaccines
Your vaccine history may help with your COVID vaccine. Yes, all the vaccines, people!
A good start
NIH awards $470M to NYU to build long COVID-19 study population
Officials aim to enroll 40,000 participants as part of a combined population of new and existing study groups, in a meta-cohort called Recover, to investigate the mystery surrounding long COVID-19.
New Recommendations Address ME/CFS Diagnosis and Management
The urgency of appropriate recognition and management of ME/CFS has increased as growing numbers of people are exhibiting signs and symptoms of ME/CFS following acute COVID-19 infection.
New Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS
The clinicians make it clear that no treatments have been shown to be curative. Instead, they focus on advice for managing and treating symptoms like orthostatic intolerance, cognitive dysfunction, pain and sleep dysfunction.
The study
Risk is cut, but not eliminated. We have to remain careful.
Vaccines cut risk of ‘long covid’ in half, major study finds