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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: Colin2B on 13/05/2021 11:18:31

Title: Is Long Covid one illness or many?
Post by: Colin2B on 13/05/2021 11:18:31

Quote from: evan_au on 25/04/2021 04:36:48

Perhaps 10% of people with COVID infection get "Long COVID", a post-viral syndrome affecting many normal functions
- Many of the symptoms include loss of memory, fuzzy thinking, etc
- This may be an auto-immune problem, or maybe a disruption of the autonomic nervous system?
- Symptoms sometimes last for months - there are now cases that have persisted for a year
- A study suggests that only 40% recover after 3 months of intensive rehabilitation.
- This has resulted in loss of work in many cases.
- Many doctors see this as a psychosomatic problem.

Anecdotes that long-haul COVID symptoms that dissipated after COVID vaccination suggests that perhaps the immune system may be involved.

Listen (37 minutes); https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/covid-long-haulers/

Are there any studies which shed light on this?

Title: Re: Is Long Covid one illness or many?
Post by: evan_au on 13/05/2021 11:39:02

The Science Friday transcript listed these two interviewees: DAVID PUTRINO & WALTER KOROSHETZ.

David Putrino is Director of Rehabilitation Innovation at Mount Sinai Health System, and seems to be active in the media in many countries, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/health/long-covid-asymptomatic.html

Does medrxiv count as a "published study" in this COVID-19 era?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/11/06/2020.11.04.20226126.full.pdf

Walter Koroshetz is on a committee with National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and has his name on:
https://acd.od.nih.gov/documents/presentations/12102020_Koroshetz.pdf