
Research and advocacy updates for the week of January 2 include new research about a drug candidate for Long Covid and ME, markers of brain injury, Paxlovid, and a Twitter campaign.

Last week, clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly and his team at Washington University and the St. Louis Veterans Affairs (VA) health system published a new paper demonstrating that Covid-19 has a higher long-term health burden than the flu. Betsy Ladyzhets from The Sick Times talked to Al-Aly about his new paper and other areas of Long…





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