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Moved post The conference "Demystifying Long COVID International Conference 2023" is talking place from 7.12.2023-12.12.2023 in Madrid, Spain. Attendance for patients with Long-COVID is free of charge (both online and in-person). Patients with Long-COVID can register free of charge by writing...

I would even say it's better to try these tests on people with severe and very severe ME as well. Usually this patient group is excluded from any research, however “two short web-based cognitive tasks, Simple Reaction Time (SRT) and Number Vigilance Test (NVT)” would be something that could...

It could potentially require a different analysis and might not be true since "A predicting B" is a different statement than "B predicting A". I doubt it's worth reading through the study to be able to tell whether the argument they made is symmetric, since the most probable outcome is anyways...

Preprint Now published, see post 5 Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing Background COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a wide range of chronic cognitive symptoms for months or years as part of post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC). To date, there is no definitive objective cognitive...

Indeed. Some parts of the study have been published and discussed here Persistent endothelial dysfunction in post-COVID-19 syndrome and its associations with symptom severity and chronic inflammation.

Add on top of that, that it's not possible to claim a group as never-infected anymore unless you do a really deep analysis including extremely extensive testing, which both are never done. One could at least analyse a subset of patients to see how valuable ones method is, but I guess that would...

True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study Abstract Long-COVID prevalence estimates vary widely and should take account of symptoms that would have occurred anyway. Here we determine the prevalence of symptoms attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, taking account of...

Gray Matter Thickness and Subcortical Nuclear Volume in Men After SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Infection Key Points Question What are the clinical manifestations and brain microstructural changes associated with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in the acute phase after infection? Findings In this...

Long Covid Clinical Severity Types Based on Symptoms and Functional Disability: A Longitudinal Evaluation Abstract Background: Long Covid (LC) is a multisystem clinical syndrome with Functional Disability (FD) and compromised Overall Health (OH). There is a lack of distinct clinical symptom...

A large European grant has been granted to investigate the EBV-MS hypothesis in the project „Behind-MS“, led by EBV expert Dr. Henri-Jacques Delecluse, with research happening across 6 EU-countries. Whilst the research seems to be mostly focussed on cell- and animal models they will also be...

I'm guessing you're talking about the Ascherio paper. The diagnosis isn't blood based (and never is for MS afaik), but they could link the "Serum levels of neurofilament light chain, a biomarker of neuroaxonal degeneration to seroconversion of EBV". I haven't had a more detailed look at what...

Perhaps @Jonathan Edwards wants to comment on this. Does this method seem of much use? From what I’ve understood we usually understand very little about autoimmunity and from what researchers understand often the process appears to be very dynamic and complexly involved and intertwined which...

I decided to add this work by the group of the young researcher Alexander Rau, since a news report on currently unpublished material by him, which uses similar methods as the above study, is currently making the rounds. His group also published: Neuropsychologic Profiles and Cerebral Glucose...

Widespread white matter oedema in subacute COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms Abstract While neuropathological examinations in patients who died from COVID-19 revealed inflammatory changes in cerebral white matter, cerebral MRI frequently fails to detect abnormalities even in the...

The key quote for me is the following I'd still have to deep dive into the data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the only things reduced are related to a worse acute infection even hospitalisation or respiratory/cardiological damage due to an acute infection, rather than anything related to a...

"Urgent call for action on long covid" - https://practicebusiness.co.uk/urgent-call-for-action-on-long-covid "As reported by BMA, the BMA and RCN are urging the government to urgently address the support for healthcare workers affected by long covid. A year ago, the Industrial Injuries...

Chikungunya-virus-specific CD4+ T cells are associated with chronic chikungunya viral arthritic disease in humans Abstract Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne re-emerging viral infection that can cause chronic chikungunya viral arthritic disease (CHIKVD), which is characterized by...

Vagus Nerve Dysfunction in the Post-COVID-19 Condition: a pilot cross sectional study Abstract Objective The post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) is a disabling syndrome affecting at least 5-10% of subjects who survive COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 mediated vagus nerve dysfunction could explain some PCC...

Oh wow. Sounds a bit alarmist too me, but then again you don't want to be doing more harm than good. I suppose it'll also depend on where one is living/the quality of tapwater (apparently the main problem is Naegleria fowleri). Allegedly the FDA recommends boiling the water or using distilled...

I haven't read this study before but have seen similar data elsewhere, for example here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36007135/. Is this really the case? Carmen Scheibenbogen just advises using regular tap water with Emser Naselspülsalz (which seems a bit like a pharmaceutical marketing...