Miles W. Griffis
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Research updates, February 18
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Research updates, February 11
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Research updates, February 4
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Research updates, January 28
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Long COVID is a smoldering threat to wildland firefighters
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in October 2022 by High Country News and was supported by The Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Researchers found that particulate matter from wildfires can increase risk of COVID-19 and that wildland firefighters may be at a higher risk of developing Long COVID due to a variety of factors.…
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Finding an accepted Long COVID biomarker will be complicated. This blood test could give us answers.
Last year, immunologist Johan Van Weyenbergh published a study in The Lancet: Microbe that identified a potential blood-based biomarker for Long COVID with 94% sensitivity. Van Weyenbergh’s team discovered SARS-CoV-2 RNA transcripts in the blood cells of people with Long COVID. They also found a specific type of RNA, called ORF1ab RNA, which suggested there…
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Research updates, January 21
The U.S. government is funding a $375 million effort for a new COVID-19 prevention drug for immunocompromised people, as part of Project NextGen. The federal health department provided the funds to the drug company Shionogi Inc. for a long-acting pre-exposure prophylactic (PreP) called S-892216 that blocks the main protease of SARS-CoV-2.
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Research updates, January 14
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Research updates, January 7
*Editor’s note: Julia Moore Vogel, an author of Paxlovid study, is on The Sick Times’ advisory board. Other authors are also affiliated with the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, which shares a funding source (the Balvi and Kanro funds) with The Sick Times. One author (JD Davids) is affiliated with Long COVID Justice, with which we collaborated…
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“Hardest f—kin years of my life”: Comedian Casey Frey says he may have Long COVID
Earlier this week, comedian, actor, and dancer Casey Frey disclosed to that he may have Long COVID to his nearly two million Instagram followers. Frey became a popular public figure after creating videos on the now-defunct social media app, Vine, before starring in music videos by Tiësto and The Knocks. The 31-year-old has also appeared…
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