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Still, they're making progress. At last update, just over half were asked for samples. Thus, we're likely around 10,000 samples.

I believe this is a useful line of research because I have an interest in low-level neuroinflammation and ME.

Those studies aren't half of pwLC. They're half of pwLC who make it to an LC clinic, making them much more likely to be severely ill.

Absolutely. There's plenty of examples of government mismanaging projects, but I think LC research is more vulnerable to this because it's not taken seriously.

Wealthier people are more likely to have time to read about long Covid and thus understand what it is.

It's utterly disgusting that an organization that supports vaccines refuses to take post-infectious disease seriously.

No, they can't recruit from other countries because their control population is from the UK Biobank. If patients were from all over the world, the controls and patients would no longer be matched. They used the biobank so they'd only need to gather half as many samples.

Her treatment regimen is acid-base woo all over again.

Long-term disability?

PBS has nailed it again. Lots of good quotes:

If your first infection has a 4.0% probability of causing long Covid, your second has a 2.4% chance of giving you long covid, and the risk decreases by the same ratio (40%) each infection, your cumulative LC risk approaches 10% as the number of infections becomes large.

Yes, having more participants is like having a higher gain antenna, you pull the signal out of the noise. Man, I really hope we get enough participants to show something strong. If we found several several genes that had nothing to do with cognition, with adjusted p of 0.0001, that would blow...

At a very minimum, 10% of my suffering is due to lack of acceptance as a biological disease.

No, totally different. That was bocidelpar AKA ASP0367.

I'm going to wait until their paper is out. We've been burned too many times by researchers hyping up their own findings.

Wow, I'm surprised. (But still skeptical)

There's significant pushback. There were 56 comments when I opened it, and about half were supportive of LC, half dismissive.

Constantly updating participant numbers is unnecessary, but an update every couple months would be very informative.

Considering the alternative, I just might go with Windows.

If there's software in my head, I hope it's not from Microsoft.