Everyday activities can require enormous effort for people living with post-COVID fatigue. This study examines the brain mechanisms that may contribute to fatigue.
Articles on Long COVID
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Long COVID shows why patients need assessment, respect and careful support that includes the brain-body connection.
The US lacks the capacity to treat long COVID, and HHS defunding is taking the country further away from being able to handle the country’s growing number of long COVID cases.
As the number of people living with long COVID continues to grow, understanding its broader health consequences will be essential.
The prevalence of long COVID is more than a hundred times greater than the definition of a rare disease – yet there are no specific health services or support.
Air hunger is more than just feeling out of breath. Here’s what causes this distressing sensation – and when to seek help.
Long COVID isn’t purely a biological problem; it’s a human one, shaped by both physiology and lived experience.
Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.
SARS-CoV-2 and some other viruses trigger “zombie cells” that can create a mix of symptoms seen in long-COVID.
Is nicotine a useful remedy or a dangerous experiment?
The FDA’s new framework for COVID-19 vaccines breaks from established procedure for how the government establishes vaccine guidelines.
Hospitalisations and deaths attributed to COVID have dropped significantly since a peak in 2022. But a new variant could still reverse the trend quickly.
A recent study has found women aged 40-54 had the greatest risk of developing long COVID.
Black Americans were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 infections, illness and death during the pandemic. But the long-term toll of long COVID among this group is still largely overlooked.
Conditions such as long COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease and meningitis can damage the line of communication between your brain and your muscles.
Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.
Much, if not all, long COVID appears to be driven by the virus persisting in the body. Formal proof remains elusive but here’s what the science shows.
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome can cause a rapid heart rate when standing, dizziness, breathlessness and fatigue.
While long COVID may not be immediately or directly life-threatening, it could exacerbate existing conditions.
For many of us, COVID has become just a bad memory, despite its lasting and mixed legacies. While the media have largely lost interest in COVID, and people are now rather blase about it, the disease is still taking a toll.
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Professor of Public Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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