Scientists in the United States have been scanning patients with Long COVID symptoms in a bid to assess the long-term impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They’ve done it by using a special imaging technique which lights up when it sees inflammation.
COVID-19 Found in People’s Blood Months After Infection
Researchers have detected COVID-19 viral proteins in the blood of 25 percent of patients, even up to 14 months after the initial infection with SARS-CoV-2. This means that for some Long Covid patients, their symptoms could come from ongoing infection.
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
First up on the show this week, clinical trials of new and old treatments for Long Covid. Producer Meagan Cantwell is joined by Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel and some of her sources to discuss the difficulties of studying and treating this debilitating disease.
Lessons in Persistence: New Long COVID trials aim to clear lingering virus — and help patients in desperate need
First up on the show this week, clinical trials of new and old treatments for Long Covid. Producer Meagan Cantwell is joined by Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel and some of her sources to discuss the difficulties of studying and treating this debilitating disease.
UCSF launches novel approach to help unravel mysteries of long COVID
Hoping to speed up understanding of long COVID — and hasten a cure for millions of sufferers — UCSF researchers on Thursday announced the opening of the world’s first bank of tissue specimens from people who have the mysterious disorder. The decision to collect such samples and make them available for researchers everywhere to study […]
First Tissue Bank May Help Solve Mystery of Long COVID Misery
UC San Francisco will launch the world’s first tissue bank with samples donated by patients with long COVID. The move follows research indicating that the virus can continue to linger throughout the body and may hold the key to understanding the cause of the debilitating disorder and lead to effective treatments. By October 2023, an […]
‘Long Covid’ tissue bank at UCSF aims to turn $3M into new research
The virus behind Covid-19 is playing a long game of hide-and-seek. Now scientists studying Long Covid at UCSF are getting $3 million to develop a tissue bank to seed a greater understanding of the virus’ devastating lingering effects. The $3 million grant to support the long Covid tissue bank at the University of California, San […]
UCSF Researchers Launch Tissue Bank to Study Long COVID
Dr. Michael Peluso and KQED health correspondent Lesley McClurg discusses the launch of a new UCSF-based tissue bank to learn more about Long COVID. The bank will serve to collect and analyze tissues from various parts of the body for evidence of persistent COVID-19 virus in the body which could be driving Long COVID symptoms.
Episode 69: Prof. Tim Henrich – Viral Persistence and T Cell Dysregulation
With a background in HIV and as part of the Division of Experimental Medicine, Professor Tim Henrich approaches Long Covid with extensive post-viral knowledge, an innovative mindset, and high end technology which have enabled him and his team to see the physiological changes caused by SARS-CoV2 and the impact of treatments. Henrich and the team […]
Update on Long Covid
In this Covid Medical Grand Rounds, we’ll update the science and epidemiology of Long Covid, with three of the nation’s leading experts on the topic. We’ll cover new findings about the mechanisms by which Long Covid causes symptoms, progress in trying to identify effective treatments, and our growing understanding regarding the impact of Covid infections […]