In the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022, Lauren Shoemaker couldn’t wait to return to her usual routine of skiing, backpacking, and pregaming her family’s eight-mile…
Read more ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’Compared with the worst days of the pandemic—when vaccines and antivirals were nonexistent or scarce, when more than 10,000 people around the world were dying each day, when…
Read more How Much Less to Worry About Long COVID NowLast fall, when RSV and flu came roaring back from a prolonged and erratic hiatus, and COVID was still killing thousands of Americans each week, many of the…
Read more Sick Season Will Be Worse From Now OnBack in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been…
Read more The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This FallImagine you need to send a letter. The mailbox is only two blocks away, but the task feels insurmountable. Air hunger seizes you whenever you walk, you’re plagued…
Read more Long-Haulers Are Trying to Define ThemselvesUpdated at 6:29 p.m. ET on April 21, 2023 Charlie McCone has been struggling with the symptoms of long COVID since he was first infected, in March 2020.…
Read more Long COVID Is Being Erased—AgainApril 7, 2023 – More than 3 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, lasting symptoms are becoming quite common, with residents of certain states, women, Hispanic people,…
Read more Long COVID Hitting Some States, Minorities, Women HarderApril 4, 2023 – Lisa McCorkell had a mild bout of COVID-19 in March 2020. Young and healthy, she assumed that she would bounce back quickly. But when…
Read more Doctor’s Checklist for Treating Long COVID PatientsMarch 28, 2023 – Over and over, Mesha Liely was told that it was all in her head. That she was just a woman prone to exaggeration. That she…
Read more Bias, Lack of Access Make Long COVID Worse for Patients of ColorMarch 27, 2023 – Good news and bad news on the long COVID front: Certain groups of people – like women, smokers, and those who had severe COVID-19…
Read more Who Is Most Likely to Get Long COVID? Patient Data May TellMarch 23, 2023 — This month, I took care of a patient who recently contracted COVID-19 and was complaining of chest pain. After ruling out the possibility of…
Read more ‘We’re Struggling’: Long COVID Mystery Has Doctors in the DarkMarch 15, 2023 — Last year, on the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked our audience questions about their pandemic experiences. A year later – and…
Read more WebMD Poll: Another Year of Tough COVID QuestionsSOURCES: Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. Manali Mukherjee, PhD, immunologist, assistant professor, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University. Sarah…
Read more 3 Years On, Why Don’t We Know the Extent of Long COVID?SOURCES David L. Hoey, president and CEO of Vaxxas, Cambridge, MA, and Brisbane, Australia. Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern…
Read more Future COVID Vaccines Must Be Better; Science Races to RespondMarch 15, 2023 – Three years after COVID-19 rocked the world, the pandemic has evolved into a steady state of commonplace infections, less frequent hospitalization and death, and…
Read more COVID at 3 Years: Where Are We Headed?To be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Babies might not meet the…
Read more The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to AnswerMarch 10, 2023 – Health care workers infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant were far less likely to experience significant long COVID symptoms than those who contracted the original…
Read more Omicron Much Less Likely to Cause Long COVID, Study FindsMarch 9, 2023 – Metformin appears to play a role in preventing long COVID when taken early during a COVID-19 infection, according to a new preprint study from The…
Read more ‘Breakthrough’ Study: Diabetes Drug Helps Prevent Long COVIDMarch 6, 2023 — The impact of long COVID – and its sometimes-disabling symptoms that can persist for more than a year — has worsened health care’s already severe…
Read more Long COVID Takes Toll on Already Stretched Health Care WorkforceBy Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Feb. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People who are experiencing anxiety and depression months after a mild case of COVID-19 may have…
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