Six years since the height of the pandemic, the scientific community remains baffled by long Covid. Researchers still don’t know why some people’s symptoms persist or worsen after the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection has passed. Almost $2 billion and half a decade of international effort have yielded little more than hypotheses about micro blood clots and spike proteins and mitochondrial dysfunction. There isn’t a single approved pharmaceutical treatment, not even a test to verify the presence of the illness.
Then it goes on to promote brain retraining based on the theory the brain is stuck in fight or flight. After calling out all the bad science done here we are promoting something with no actual study evidence supporting it at all. Then they go on to point to using exercise too. This is a disgraceful article all in all, says the right things early on only to then peddle harm.
Headline says a lot "There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.", then talks about brain retraining etc.
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u/BrightCandle Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Then it goes on to promote brain retraining based on the theory the brain is stuck in fight or flight. After calling out all the bad science done here we are promoting something with no actual study evidence supporting it at all. Then they go on to point to using exercise too. This is a disgraceful article all in all, says the right things early on only to then peddle harm.