New study could offer clues about a potential cause of long Covid-19 symptoms — and possible avenues for treatment.
A person self-administers a Covid-19 test at Long Beach City College's Veterans Memorial Stadium in Long Beach, Calif., on Dec. 9, 2020.ByA study published Tuesday could offer new clues about a potential cause of long Covid-19 symptoms — and possible avenues for treatment.
Nevertheless, the study's findings could get researchers a small step closer to understanding what causes long Covid, a term the World Health Organization said"refers collectively to the constellation of long-term symptoms that some people experience after they have had Covid-19." "That's really point one: We found a real objective medical problem in over half of these patients," she said, adding that there was no correlation between how severe or mild the Covid case was and the type of nerve damage.
Dr. Fernando Carnavali, who leads the Center for Post-Covid Care at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, said he sees the study as one small piece of the immense amount of research being done to find answers for long Covid patients.
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