NPR - Unraveling long COVID: Here's what scientists who study the illness want to find out

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/09/1198342040/long-covid-causes-treatment-research

On viral reservoirs —

On activated T-cells —

On microclots —

On hormones —

 

On this, there really needs to be more attention paid to Barry Marshall's work. He won a Nobel prize for showing that most peptic ulcers are caused by H. Pylori, but has continued his research since and found that most people carry it, and in fact that some people who don't carry it at all have other health problems.

The germ theory of disease is not the simple version of "get pathogen X, get disease-Y-caused-by-X, eliminate the pathogen or die" that is clearly the one in operation. It's far more complex than this and medicine needs to freaking accept that they can't know everything, there will always be unknowables about everything that they do, meaning that they absolutely need to stop with extreme prejudice their current obsession with psychosomatics out of "we don't know, therefore psychosomatic".

Meanwhile we are still in the "what, you think a virus did this to you?" phase of things. An adolescent phase, at best.

 

Thanks for posting that link, @SNT Gatchaman!

On a slight tangent, I've been pleased to see so many media outlets using photos from this year's May 12 Millions Missing demonstration. That array of 300 cots, spread out on the lawn at the base of the Washington Monument, makes a good visual statement.

 

Was searching for this on google to see if it was available in audio but can't find it. Looks interesting at least, thanks for posting.

 

Maybe they should have invited experts on MECFS since that is what they are studying—don’t reinvent the wheel.

 

@Jaybee00 Nath & Walitt were there, who led the NIH ME Intramural Study. Systrom was there too (ME Researcher). You probably already knew that though (is my guess), but sharing if others weren’t privy to.

 

Nope—didn’t know this—thanks. Not indicated in the NPR article.