Short of breath in the clinic: In the rehabilitation clinic in Bad Rothenfelde, long-Covid patients are sometimes treated for weeks.
Image: dpa
More focus on the burden of disease than on the number of infections, according to Berlin. Is Long-Covid included in the bill? A current overview of how vaccination protects, early detection is possible and what persistent viruses can do to the body.
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The papers for this podcast episode:
Paul Kuodi et al, medRxiv (Preprint), 2022: “Association between vaccination status and reported incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms in Israel: a cross-sectional study of patients tested between March 2020 and November 2021”
Ziyad Al-Aly et al, Research Square (Preprint), 2021, “Long Covid after Breakthrough COVID-19: the post-acute sequelae of breakthrough COVID-19”
- Early detection of Long-Covid/Post-Covid:
Carlo Cervia et al, Nature Communications, 2022, “Immunoglobulin signature predicts risk of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome”
- Persistence of the virus in the body:
Daniel Chertow et al, Research Square (Preprint), 2021, “SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain”
Kjetil Bjoernevik et al, Science, 2022, “Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis”