27 November, 2021

This Is What Life With Long COVID Is Really Like

When Keisha Kokonezi got sick in March 2020, no one had yet heard of Long COVID. Back then, we knew next to nothing about the virus which has killed millions. We believed it was solely a respiratory disease. Turns out, we were wrong. We believed it was surface transmissible. Wrong again. Arguably worse than all of that, we believed a COVID infection had two outcomes—survive or not. Yet again, we were wrong.

26 November, 2021

Claim That French Study Showed Long COVID Doesn’t Exist Misinterprets The Study And Fails To Account For Its Limitations

The study by Matta et al. was inaccurately interpreted by social media users to mean that long COVID doesn’t exist.

25 November, 2021

Long COVID: More Clues Coming, But No 'Aha' Moments Yet

In late April 2020, about 6 weeks after the pandemic was declared, physical therapist David Putrino was in a weekly meeting with other staff at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City to assess their COVID-19 patients' progress. "One of the clinical staff mentioned that they were concerned about a patient that was lingering on the [COVID] program and still not doing well with fatigue, a high heart rate, and cognition issues,'' says Putrino, PhD, director of rehabilitation innovation for the health system. "Then, a bunch of other clinicians chimed in on the same call, that they had a patient just like that." A search of the health system revealed a trend.