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- 'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54296223 129 comments
- Revealing S. Korean studies show antibodies could thwart COVID-19 reinfection, spread: It's still unclear how long antibodies last in people who have recovered https://abcnews.go.com/health/south-korean-studies-suggest-antibodies-protect-covid-19/story?id=70312111 10 comments worldnews
- More than one in five people who are infected with COVID-19 take more than three months to recover, according to international researchers who looked at the prevalence of long Covid in a cohort of 4708 Americans. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820087 26 comments science
- Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the infection is over. The insertion could explain the rare finding that people can recover from COVID-19 but then test positive for SARS-CoV-2 again months later. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/further-evidence-offered-claim-genes-pandemic-coronavirus-can-integrate-human-dna?utm_campaign=newsfromscience&utm_source=jhubbard&utm_medium=twitter 473 comments science
- Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the infection is over. The insertion could explain the rare finding that people can recover from COVID-19 but then test positive for SARS-CoV-2 again months later. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/further-evidence-offered-claim-genes-pandemic-coronavirus-can-integrate-human-dna?utm_campaign=newsfromscience&utm_source=jhubbard&utm_medium=twitter 4 comments science
- People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid: People with excessively flexible joints were about 30% more likely to say they hadn’t fully recovered from Covid-19 than those with normal joints, and were significantly more likely to be affected by high levels of fatigue. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/19/people-with-hypermobility-may-be-more-prone-to-long-covid-study-suggests 71 comments science
- UK research found most young people who were confirmed to have long Covid three months after a positive PCR test had recovered within 24 months. Females were almost twice as likely to still meet the research definition of long Covid at 24 months, compared to males. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/dec/70-young-people-long-covid-recover-within-two-years 8 comments science