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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
- ‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition. Five years after the pandemic began, research shows that the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some of these cognitive losses may extend to people who quickly recovered. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/03/27/long-covid-brain-cognition/ 3 comments science