The original paper seems worth a thread, so I made one: Glucocorticoid treatment during COVID-19 infection: does it affect the incidence of long...
There was a response to this paper which @Nightsong summarized: The association between glucocorticoids and long COVID (2025, Inflammopharmacology)
Glucocorticoid treatment during COVID-19 infection: does it affect the incidence of long COVID? Polina Specktor, Dana Hadar & Hilla Cohen...
Thanks!
Well, she still says it could be caused by an antigen. But the other expected signs are missing, so maybe a weird response to an antigen, or maybe...
Oh thank you, that's really nice.
Oh there's a final discussion at the end of the thesis with a bit more of where to go from here, but still basically says that it's unclear what...
Yeah, I mainly wanted to read the thesis to see if it included any more speculation about the implication of this finding, because I don't know...
I can try to give you the absolute basics, as I understand them, at least. B cells have B cell receptors (BCRs) sticking out of their surface....
Thread for Audrey Ryback's thesis which includes the same data as this paper, plus a couple other non-ME/CFS B cell repertoire related...
So these B cells are from the same participants whose T cells were studied here, where no differences were found: S4ME link: Comparison of T-cell...
That paper has the same data as this thesis. Edit: But this thesis has a couple other B cell repertoire related investigations, one in malaria.
Some interesting things I didn't know before (links to S4ME threads for references): The same HLA alleles increased risk of ME/CFS and...
They said:
Deadline News: 'Campaigners to hand out thousands of leaflets to raise awareness about long COVID, five years since the pandemic began'
Paywalled and no abstract, but maybe there's something interesting in this: The association between glucocorticoids and long COVID (2025,...
I think it'd be good to have a general thread for topics related to research that don't need a whole thread and for where there is no existing...
The RECOVER Report - March 2025 A Discover RECOVER video provides insight into a study of lab test results. ---- RECOVER Representatives...
Double-seropositive Myasthenia Gravis Following COVID-19: A case report Yuki Hiraoka, Yasushi Hosoi, Takuya Tsubata, Miharu Yanagida, Yusuke...
Oh shoot, thanks. This is what I had saved in my calendar for today as "NIH long COVID meeting" and I assumed I had meant RECOVER:
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