Die bisher beste Long Covid Studie wurde nun veröffentlicht, mit überraschenden Ergebnissen die neue Therapieansätze ermöglichen. Vereinfacht gesagt: Long Covid wird (in den untersuchten Bereichen) von Autoantikörpern im Blut verursacht, die dann sehr wichtige Teile des Gehirns angreifen und eigentlich alle Symptome erklärbar machen. Wichtige Erkenntnis: Long Covid Patienten dürfen keinesfalls Blut spenden denn es scheint übertragbar zu sein über jene Autoantikörper im Blut! Toller Artikel, verständlich geschrieben: healthrising.org/blog/2026/0…

Children with Long COVID had measurable retinal microvascular changes. buff.ly/fPSg320 In 74 kids ages 7–17, scans found wider arterioles, wider venules, and a higher A/V ratio, consistent with endothelial dysfunction. The eye may help track pediatric Long COVID.

Zeynep — this is not like TB (or cancer, or HIV, or any of the other analogized conditions), because there is no "long Covid" in the first place. There's an extremely vague definition that could apply to a range of conditions, from post-ICU syndrome to basically every PAIS that's out there. Much of the article is dedicated to discussing the definitional problems, as well as the problems that creates for studying "the" condition in the first place. The piece isn't saying that "mind-body" therapies work, or don't work, for long Covid, or any PAIS. It's saying that right now there IS no single entity we can call "long Covid," there's just vague definitions of a family of syndromes and symptoms, which result in everything from extremely moderate to very severe illness. Equally important, and also the point of the article: A subset of very, very ill people — and a larger subset of mild/moderate — attribute their recovery to mind-body interventions. Was it spontaneous remission? Was it "placebo"? Was it...something else? It would be great to know! But that patient group, specifically, has been of zero interest to researchers, and are actively ostracized by the advocacy world. No one studies *recovered* LC patients who were severely ill and attribute their recovery to mind-body therapies, as, for example, they do over in ALS where the very, very few spontaneous remissions are of great interest to researchers. Instead, people like Larson and Lupi are told they are full of shit, or were never really sick, or are wrong about what caused their recovery. That's what the article is about. Other articles can discuss other things! But those are the dynamics and themes I address. They are important. Failing to address them is holding back research on a very heterogenous and poorly defined set of conditions.