Panel discussion with Avi Nath, along with two MDs who work at Long Covid clinics and a neurologist who would rather this is all chemical imbalance (goes on a bit about serotonin at some point, no idea where he's getting at), or something.
I watched it last night so my memory is fuzzy but:
Doesn't reveal all that much new to people who follow the topic but otherwise a good intro on the overall issue of neurological symptoms following Covid. Also that holy crap is research funding needed because this is still at best 2% of the effort that's needed. Which is more than the usual <1% but still very much unlikely to lead anywhere.
There is some discussion of autopsies, the NIH has performed about two dozens so far. Some of the things they found is that almost no viruses are found in the brain and CSF, and there is only evidence of neuroinflammation in two places: the olfactory nerve and the brain stem. But the evidence for those is pretty bad. Can't remember who said it but they found the olfactory nerve in some patients to be so inflamed that the neural structure has basically been destroyed. But those were in severe acute cases so they could have had encephalitis, or GBS or other more pronounced inflammation.
There is some discussion of research overlapping with ME at about 20-22 minutes, from Dr Navis, as well as at about 28-32 minutes from Nath. Navis mentioned diet modifications and supplements, about working with functional medicine doctors, not very useful but she seems overall capable and understanding, just early days.
Nath does a brief mention of how other viruses are known to cause similar symptoms, how there are many post-viral syndromes with their own features but also clearly shared features.
This is all still very much at square 1. It's sad that research was never allowed to go beyond square 1. That looks very bad in hindsight, considering it was all an ideological choice.
