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9/10/25, The Cribsiders Pediatric Podcast: 'Long Story Short'

'In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Peter Rowe from Johns Hopkins to unpack the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of Long COVID in pediatric settings.'

Host: "I think one of the things that Long COVID has, or the COVID pandemic has done, it's made people realize, okay you can get this kind of problem - Long COVID or ME/CFS, after SARS-CoV-2 infection - maybe these people that we were misjudging pre- pandemic actually were sick - and much sicker than we thought..."

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9/10/25: 'David Tuller Interview with Ian Lipkin'

Covers Columbia University's Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) recent ME paper on heightened innate immunity

Lipkin: "So our goal is to try to get to precision medicine with ME/CFS. And I think we're going to get there by using various tools that can manipulate immune responses and can interfere with certain aspects of cell cycle. Is it going to be complicated? Yes...Is it something that's 5 years away? I think it's going to be less than that. I think we're getting close."

"There's no question that there's a reduced, that the threshold for triggering inflammation, with ME/CFS - is lower than the threshold in people who are healthy. So anything can set this off."

"And our work here clearly shows that the immune system is dysregulated. And if you tie that together with the dysbiosis and all the other things, you can begin to chip away at how you might make people feel better."

"I think the most important outcome for patients with ME/CFS is that as a result of Long COVID, people realize that you can develop a chronic debilitating illness with many features of ME/CFS after an infection. It has given it a legitimacy."

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