covid-19

  1. rvallee

    Long COVID or [PASC]: An Overview of Biological Factors That May Contribute to Persistent Symptoms, Proal & VanElzakker, 2021

    (Paragraphs added for legibility) The novel virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Across the globe, a subset of patients who sustain an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection are developing a wide range of persistent...
  2. Wyva

    Physical and Mental Fatigue in Subjects Recovered from COVID-19 Infection: A Case–Control Study, 2021, Elanwar et al

    Purpose: Much effort has been directed toward studying COVID-19 symptoms; however, the post–COVID-19 phase remains mysterious. The aim of this work was to conduct a clinical and neurophysiological evaluation of physical and mental fatigue in COVID-19 long-haulers and to study whether markers of...
  3. rvallee

    The COVID Long Haulers: Facing the Cognitive and Physical Consequences, June 22, 2021

    Many COVID-19 survivors of all ages experience alarming neurological and physical signs and symptoms post-infection. Dementia-like symptoms, including memory loss and confusion—described as "brain fog"—are lingering burdens for some, while others confront an array of physical symptoms including...
  4. rvallee

    Lancet letter: Long COVID has exposed medicine's blind-spot, 2021, Burke and del Rio

    As many others have pointed out, the clusters of symptoms reported by patients post-COVID-19 are not unique or specific to long COVID. Patients with similar assortments of chronic symptoms are commonly encountered in neurology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and other subspecialty clinics...
  5. Andy

    SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank, 2022, Douaud et al

    Abstract from 2021 preprint There is strong evidence for brain-related pathologies in COVID-19, some of which could be a consequence of viral neurotropism. The vast majority of brain imaging studies so far have focused on qualitative, gross pathology of moderate to severe cases, often carried...
  6. Simon M

    International: World Health Organization News (news relevant to ME/CFS, Long Covid and related conditions)

    Moderator note. This post has been copied and following posts moved from this thread: Possibility of ME or PVFS after Covid-19 Big thanks to @Andy for posting this. I posted similar on Twitter and got very lucky It's amazing and, hopefully, this will lead to serious action by the WHO.
  7. Sean

    Ed Yong wins Pulitzer Prize for pandemic reporting

    "In a series of definitive pieces that earned him the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, The Atlantic’s Ed Yong anticipated the course of the coronavirus pandemic, clarified its dangers, and illuminated the American government’s disastrous failure to curb it."...
  8. Andy

    Cognitive impairment and altered cerebral glucose metabolism in the subacute stage of COVID-19, 2021, Hosp et al

    Abstract During the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, neurological symptoms increasingly moved into the focus of interest. In this prospective cohort study, we assessed neurological and cognitive symptoms in hospitalized coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19)...
  9. rvallee

    Deep spatial profiling of human COVID-19 brains reveals neuroinflammation with distinct microanatomical microglia-T cell interactions, 2021

    Performed detailed molecular and spatial analysis of the COVID-19 brain immune response Pathognomonic microglial nodules and T cell infiltration are present in COVID-19 brains Altered microglia-T cell interactions correlate with systemic measures of inflammation Vascular leakage is linked with...
  10. Nightsong

    Longitudinal immune dynamics of mild COVID-19 define signatures of recovery and persistence, 2021, Talla et al.

    bioRxiv preprint: link, PDF Summary SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 160 million and caused more than 3 million deaths to date. Most individuals (>80%) have mild symptoms and recover in the outpatient setting, but detailed studies of immune responses have focused primarily on moderate to severe...
  11. Andy

    US: COVID-19 Long Haulers Act (H.R. 2754) Has Been Introduced

    Text from a Solve ME email. Bipartisan Long Hauler Legislation Introduced Before Congress! Thanks to your dedication and advocacy efforts, the COVID-19 Long Haulers Act (H.R. 2754) was formally introduced before Congress! The legislation was first announced during Advocacy Week by...
  12. Andy

    Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 Orf9b in complex with human TOM70 suggests unusual virus-host interactions, 2021, Gao et al

    Abstract Although the accessory proteins are considered non-essential for coronavirus replication, accumulating evidences demonstrate they are critical to virus-host interaction and pathogenesis. Orf9b is a unique accessory protein of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV. It is implicated in immune evasion...
  13. cassava7

    COVID-19 symptoms over time: comparing long-haulers to ME/CFS, Jason et al, 2021

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2021.1922140 Leonard A. Jason, Mohammed F. Islam, Karl Conroy, Joseph Cotler, Chelsea Torres, Mady Johnson & Brianna Mabie Received 21 Apr 2021, Accepted 22 Apr 2021, Published online: 05 May 2021 Introduction Our objective was to...
  14. mango

    Non-fiction books about the COVID-19 pandemic

    Two books have recently been published in Swedish about the covid-19 pandemic. (I haven't yet read them, so I'm posting this only for information, not a recommendation.) Filosofi och pandemi - Åke Gafvelin and Lapo Lappin https://artos.se/bok/filosofi-och-pandemi/ About philosophy and the...
  15. cassava7

    Divergent and self-reactive immune responses in the CNS of COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms, Song et al., 2021

    Eric Song, Christopher M. Bartley, Ryan D. Chow, Thomas T. Ngo, Ruoyi Jiang, Colin R. Zamecnik, Ravi Dandekar, Rita P. Loudermilk, Yile Dai, Feimei Liu, Sara Sunshine, Jamin Liu, Wesley Wu, Isobel A. Hawes, Bonny D. Alvarenga, Trung Huynh, Lindsay McAlpine, Nur-Taz Rahman, Bertie Geng, Jennifer...
  16. rvallee

    COVID-19 neuropathology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, 2021, Thakur et al

    (Line breaks mine for legibility) Many patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection develop neurological signs and symptoms, though, to date, little evidence exists that primary infection of the brain is a significant contributing factor. We present the clinical, neuropathological, and molecular findings...
  17. rvallee

    Preprint Autonomic conditioning therapy reduces fatigue and improves global impression of change in individuals with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, 2021 Putrino

    Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is a collection of persistent and debilitating symptoms lasting weeks to months after acute COVID-19 infection, with fatigue most commonly reported. There is controversy surrounding the role of exercise programs for this condition, due to concerns over the...
  18. cassava7

    Preprint: Vaccination boosts protective responses and counters SARS-CoV-2-induced pathogenic memory B cells, Mishra et al, 2021

    Given the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the recent implementation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, we have much to learn about the duration of immune protection and the interface between the immune responses to infection and to vaccination...
  19. Wyva

    Long‐COVID syndrome‐associated brain fog and chemofog: Luteolin to the rescue, 2021, Theoharides et al

    Abstract COVID‐19 leads to severe respiratory problems, but also to long‐COVID syndrome associated primarily with cognitive dysfunction and fatigue. Long‐COVID syndrome symptoms, especially brain fog, are similar to those experienced by patients undertaking or following chemotherapy for cancer...
  20. Wyva

    Specifics of chronic fatigue syndrome coping strategies identified in a French flash survey during the COVID‐19 containment, 2021, Moncorps et al

    Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has focused health systems on supporting patients affected by this virus. Meanwhile in the community, many other contained patients could only use self‐care strategies, especially in countries that have set up a long and strict containment such as France. The...
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