Long COVID Is Real, and Many Real Questions Remain

Long COVID Is Real, and Many Real Questions Remain

Jan. 28, 2022 — Long story short, we still have a lot to learn about long COVID-19. But it is a real phenomenon with real long-term health effects for people recovering from coronavirus infections. And diagnosing and managing it can get tricky, as some symptoms of long COVID-19 overlap with those of other conditions — … Read more

Long COVID, Big Bills Even With Short Hospital Stays

Long COVID, Big Bills Even With Short Hospital Stays

Besides heart/lung symptoms, Gut said patients can have profound fatigue and neuro-cognitive changes — commonly dubbed “brain fog.” And those problems can even strike people who had milder COVID and never needed to be hospitalized, Gut said. So while SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus, the resulting disease can have broad effects in the body. … Read more

Could the ‘Mono’ Virus Be Driving Long-Haul COVID?

Could the ‘Mono’ Virus Be Driving Long-Haul COVID?

WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Some folks suffering COVID long-haul symptoms might actually be experiencing an attack of fatigue-inducing Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a new study argues. Two-thirds of a group of 30 COVID long-haul patients had high levels of Epstein-Barr antibodies, suggesting that EBV lying dormant in their bodies had been reactivated … Read more