“The story is always the same. When a pandemic happens, people always focus on the primary organ, but they forget about the brain.” Avindra Nath, MD Most researchers, when they focus on post-infectious illnesses, go straight to the body to figure...
ME/CFS scores as a large study cements the link between it and long COVID just after over a billion dollars is slated to go for long COVID research “The findings show that—even in those people who don’t require hospitalization for severe COVID-19—the...
Paradigm Shift for Long COVID Patients (and people with ME/CFS)? The dramatic announcement that Congress is going to appropriate over a billion dollars (a billion dollars!) to study the COVID-19 long haulers was just one sign that long COVID is being taken seriously....
Emily Taylor of Solve ME/CFS Initiative reported that Congress has approved $1.15 billion (yes that’s a billion with a “B”) for the NIH to fund long-COVID research and clinical trials. $100 million will specifically be used for the rapid acceleration...
This post first appeared on the Mighty. Thanks to Caroline for allowing Health Rising to repost it here. A growing number of people who had COVID-19 continue to have symptoms weeks to months later, even after they no longer test positive for the virus. Many of these...