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Research updates, April 14
A new report found that Long COVID may cost OECD international economies over $135 billion per year over the next decade. And even this number may be an undercount, the authors stated.
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Research updates, April 7
A clinical trial for non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation failed in improving fatigue in Long COVID. 45 participants used a specific transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) device, or a sham (placebo), during the four-week trial.
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Research updates, March 31
The heart failure drug Ivabradine did not significantly improve symptoms for people with Long COVID and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), according to preliminary results that RECOVER researchers recently shared at a conference.
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Research updates, March 24
More than 150,000 deaths from COVID-19 went uncounted in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new study in Science Advances. Researchers used machine learning to evaluate death certificates from March 2020 to December 2021, and estimated that 19% more COVID-19 deaths occurred than originally reported.
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Research updates, March 17
Two recent prevalence studies showed the impact of Long COVID on Americans. The first, an electronic cohort study of over 600,000 active military personnel, found that 42% had at least one symptom more than 30 days after contracting COVID-19.
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Research updates, March 10
A large retrospective cohort study found significant healthcare cost increases for Long COVID over five years. The study was shared as a preprint in medRxiv and included the records of over 143,000 people.
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Research updates, March 3
Researchers identified high levels of cytokine interferon gamma (IFN-γ) in white blood cells as a potential biomarker for Long COVID. The small study, published in Science Advances, found that symptoms improved when production of IFN-γ (a molecule that plays an important role in immune response) decreased.
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Research updates, February 24
SARS-C0V-2 reinfections significantly increase the risk of Long COVID in children, a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) RECOVER study found.
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Research updates, February 17
A new review in Dovepress states that Long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) should be classified as neuroimmune disorders.
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Research updates, February 10
A large study recently connected “chronic absenteeism” to pediatric Long COVID, further disproving the “immunity debt” talking points from pundits earlier in the pandemic.
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