Long COVID initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Health
The German Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) just launched a website (www.bmg-longcovid.de) with relevant information about Long…
The immunology of long COVID
Excellent new review article (Nature Reviews Immunology)! “Here, we focus on current thinking about the pathophysiology of long…
Long COVID: Costs for the German economy and health care and pension system
How much does Long COVID cost? This new study published by BMC Health Services Research aimed to project the economic,…
Gene linked to long COVID found in analysis of thousands of patients
The 1st genome-wide hunt to find genetic risk factors for long COVID has identified a DNA sequence near…
A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’
Very interesting opinion article published by Scientific American: “We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors…
Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Long COVID
The authors of this publication conducted a systematic review to determine the prevalence of persistent symptoms, functional disability,…
Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human brain and memory
New review article published by the Cell Death Discovery journal (Nature). “This review mainly provides the molecular foundations…
Over-exposed and under-protected: the long-term impact of COVID-19 on doctors
The British Medical Association just published a very interesting paper showing the impact post-acute COVID symptoms on the…