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Very cool website! That sounds like a good next step, thank you so much!

no, vaccines were not available when I got covid and developed long covid months later.

I have Long COVID, five years and counting. I sit on the NIH RECOVER and RECOVER-TLC working groups where I watched how research on invisible illness actually gets done and who get…

thats strange as I thought Germany is the one investing over the next decade in these conditions?

having posted on this topic for years, your comment is the first I’ve seen come to this rational conclusion. usually people double down on their original perspective

strongest evidence so far in gut and immune cells for living organisms. They did find it in the brain of one patient when doing an unrelated procedure at the NIH. That could be due…

they’ve done 15 days all null and the 25 day one was null but has some unique labs they tested but haven’t posted yet. Paxlovid does something to antiviral genes and shows there’s …

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evidence says yes, but bacteria and other antigens are being studied. ME/CFS shows antigen persistence like long covid has clearly shown. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024…

is a small proof of concept study not a study anymore? gastric biopsies aren’t exactly easy to obtain at scale.

they are pretty well understood now with growing evidence of viral persistence in the gut and immune cells, and immune dysfunction causing autoantibodies. they are also distinct fr…

severity is only one factor in developing long covid. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

not quite. A grab bag of biomarkers being validated in research labs across the USA though

small study yes, meaningless no

what we’re seeing now is that the immune system can go into overdrive, where certain immune cells trigger sepsis-like illness, sometimes in milder or chronic ways. long covid and r…

Have you heard of Novavax or any of the intranasal vaccines in late trials?