MORGANTOWN — In West Virginia, 10.6% of the respondents questioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported suffering symptoms of long COVID, also known as post-COVID. That leads the country. The national average was 6.9%. In West Virginia, 41% of ...
by Lisa Jarvis A new study published last week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune response. The findings don’t explain why that immune response is out of whack, and needs confirming in larger studies. Still, this is ...
by Julia Moore Vogel In a world where most pandemic safety protocols have evaporated, where is the sense of urgency to treat, or at the very least support, people with long COVID? Early in the pandemic, we saw significant mobilization of the healthcare infrastructure across the ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Hoppy Kercheval is on vacation this week. His next column should appear on Dec. 23. by Kathryn Anne Edwards Forget the work-from-home revolution or quiet quitting: The COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest impact on the U.S. labor market will be as a mass disability event. ...
It’s becoming clearer that, even in the unlikely event that we somehow, someday manage to eradicate COVID-19 and its many variants, we can’t wipe clean the enormous toll the virus has taken. This is not just because of the incalculable loss of those who’ve died, but the struggles of ...
by Eric J. Topol We’ve been chasing the coronavirus since the pandemic began with vaccines and drugs, never getting ahead of it. In fact, well into its third year, COVID-19 is still causing often disabling symptoms among many people who were infected in early 2020. The condition ...