News About Long COVID
Below you'll find a curated collection of recent articles on Long COVID from a variety of publications. For dedicated coverage on Long COVID and related topics, visit The Sick Times.
Feb 27, 2025: COVID Survivors Nearly Twice as Likely to Have Ongoing Symptoms as Those with Flu
COVID-19 survivors have a significantly higher rate of ongoing symptoms than those who had influenza, a University of North Carolina–led research team reports, identifying underlying medical conditions and symptomatic infection as risk factors and hybrid immunity (vaccination plus previous infection) as protective.
Feb 26, 2025: 5 Years On, COVID Remains NZ's Most Important Infectious Disease - It Still Demands a Strong Response
Continuing high rates of repeat infections are also driving Long Covid, with the risk estimated at 4-14 percent per infection. Long Covid occurs with infections of all intensities, with both initial infection and reinfections.
Feb 26, 2025: Imaging Shows Significant Lung Injury in Kids with Long COVID
Children and teens with Long COVID have significant lung abnormalities detected with an advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), called free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI. The findings were published yesterday in Radiology.
Feb 25, 2025: In Sub-Saharan Africa, Wars Damage Long COVID Research and Surveillance
In summer 2023, clinical nurse Rino Da Costa was well into recruiting participants for a study to monitor Long COVID cases in Naquitengue, a village in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. It was a promising research endeavor until a flaring of gunfighting sunk her efforts.
Feb 25, 2025: The Invisbile Struggle of Long COVID: One Irish Woman Shares Her Story
Irish triathlete Gráinne Kelly contracted Covid-19 in September 2020, which later developed into Long Covid. Over the past five years, she has endured agonising symptoms and loneliness, saying that she has been made to feel gaslit and abandoned.
Feb 25, 2025: Vaccinated Kids at 57% to 73% Lower Risk of Long COVID, CDC Study Suggests
mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 was tied to a 57% and 73% lower risk of having at least one or two long-COVID symptoms, respectively, in US children ages 5 to 17 years, according to a case-control study led by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Feb 24, 2025: NIMH Grant Advances Research Into Long COVID and Related Brain Changes
To understand the mechanisms driving such elusive symptoms, emerging research, including studies published in The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific and Brain, is using neuroimaging to identify changes in certain areas of the brain in individuals who experience the cognitive symptoms of Long COVID.
Feb 22, 2025: Interferon Gamma Persistence Offers Clues to Long COVID and Potential Therapies
SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of the antiviral protein IFN-γ, which is associated with fatigue, muscle ache and depression. New research shows that in Long COVID patients, IFN-y production persists until symptoms improve, highlighting a potential biomarker and a target for therapies.
Feb 21, 2025: Trump Commands HHS to Terminate Advisory Committee on Long COVID
A new executive order from the Trump Administration commands the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID.
Feb 21, 2025: Mapping Comorbidity Patterns and Associated Proteins to Help Fight "Long COVID"
Recognizing the role that pre-existing multimorbidity may have in driving PASC, Tian et al. analyzed territory-wide electronic health records data from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and employed network-based methods to better understand the molecular basis for post-COVID disease progression.
Feb 21, 2025: 'Knowledge Can Be Power': Medical Student's Research Driven by Childhood Diagnosis
The project, which examined the association between Long COVID and gastrointestinal disorders, is one of many in her growing research portfolio. Drawing on her own experiences as a patient, and with the support of faculty mentors, Lulkin strives to give back to the medical specialty that changed her life through both research and clinical care.
Feb 21, 2025: 'Please Don't Abandon Our Long COVID Support'
Long Covid patients using a specialist service have said they feel abandoned after being told it will end in March. NHS Cheshire and Merseyside said the hubs, which were set up at the height of the pandemic in 2020, were no longer viable financially and demand for the service was falling.
Feb 21, 2025: Study Reveals Women Far More Likely to Develop Long COVID Than Men
For many people, Covid-19 symptoms — the hacking cough, fever, and runny nose — fade within a few weeks. But for others, the struggle doesn’t end there: Lingering problems like fatigue and brain fog can persist for months, or even years, after the initial infection. And according to new research, women are at a significantly greater risk of experiencing these long-term issues than men are.
Feb 20, 2025: 'I'm a Survivor' - Rockford Artist Shows Resilience by Continuing to Create, Despite Health Issues
A Rockford artist stopped teaching due to a physical ailment, but she didn’t let this stop her from creating. Some of her works are on display at the Freeport Art Museum. Judith Meyer has taught art for several decades. That abruptly stopped when she got Long COVID. This disease affected her heart.
Feb 19, 2025: Long COVID Studies Stymied by Pharma's Lack of Cooperation
Nath, a neurologist with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), wants to use pembrolizumab to try to help improve the conditions of people with Long COVID whose T cells may be exhausted.
Feb 18, 2025: New Research from Northwestern Medicine Reveals Link Between Long COVID and Eye Health
A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern Medicine and published in the Journal of Imaging is giving experts an idea how Long COVID affects the body by looking through the eyes. The research could help doctors diagnose and track how the condition impacts people over time and provide insight into the cause of Long COVID.
Feb 17, 2025: For Many in Washington, Long COVID Care Remains Out of Reach
A UW-Medicine clinic is one of the few that provides treatment and research on the chronic illness, but faces new federal funding challenges.
Feb 16, 2025: Long COVID is Solvable, But We Need More Clinical Trials
Contrary to what is often portrayed in the media, Long COVID is not a mystery. There is a straightforward reason at least some people may remain ill “after COVID”: They still have the SARS-CoV-2 virus — or parts of the virus — in their bodies.
Feb 16, 2025: Dear Secretary Kennedy, Cure Long COVID
You have promised to make America healthy again. You have testified that we pay too little attention to chronic illness. Now is your chance. Prove it.
Feb 16, 2025: Residents Invited to Mark Long COVID Awareness Day
Feb 15, 2025: Pandemic's Effects Linger, Five Years On
It's been roughly three and a half years since Andrew Coop contracted COVID-19. In some ways, he's still trying to recover.
Feb 14, 2025: Invivyd Chairman Marc Elia: The Bureaucracy is Killing People with Long COVID
How do I know all this? Because in addition to suffering from Long COVID, I have worked for years to bring alternative COVID-19 preventatives and treatments to market. As chairman of the board at Invivyd, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on cutting-edge COVID-19 medicines called monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), I’ve seen firsthand how politics, bureaucracy, and indifference to our collective well-being obstruct innovation.
Feb 12, 2025: Long-COVID Diagnosis May Prompt Patients to Switch from Acute to Outpatient Care
After a diagnosis of Long COVID, patients in Colorado shifted from seeking care in hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) to outpatient and specialist visits, with a sharp rise in new prescriptions, suggesting that the diagnosis leads to improved patient care, although healthcare use in this group is still high.
Feb 12, 2025: How the U's Long COVID Clinic Streamlines Patient Care
Utah is among the top 10 states experiencing high rates of Long COVID. The U’s Long Covid Clinic helps those experiencing the condition by providing a range of treatments and connecting patients to specialists.
Feb 11, 2025: Community Mourns Sumter County Deputy Who Died from Long-term COVID
Community members are remembering the life of a deputy with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) who died Sunday morning. SCSO said retired Sgt. Robert Lee Mitchum died after contracting long-term COVID during the pandemic, a condition which forced him to “retire medically in 2021.” Before his death, he was waiting for a lung transplant when he died from complications due to his condition.
Feb 11, 2025: Worker Claims Company's Post-COVID Firing Was Illegal
A General Dynamics subsidiary and submarine manufacturer was unjustified in its firing of a former employee who suffered from Long COVID, according to a lawsuit.