The American public is attempting to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, and research into long COVID may be dwindling. One UCSF professor is hoping for a moonshot of $1 billion dollars annually from the U.S. government to invest in long COVID research. For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Eric Thomas spoke with […]
Episode 64: Michael Peluso, M.D. – Viral Reservoirs & MAB Trial
Michael Peluso M.D., an infectious disease clinical-translational physician-scientist at UCSF, has been studying Long Covid patients since the start of the pandemic. Along with Steven Deeks and Tim Henrich, they enrolled their first patient into the LIINC study on 21st April 2020 and have not stopped working to make progress understanding the pathogenesis of, and […]
UCSF is trying a new tactic to eradicate long COVID symptoms. Here’s how it works.
The outSMART-LC clinical trial is one of only a small number testing a treatment or cure for the post-COVID condition, which is bafflingly complex, often robbing people of the ability to think clearly, wake up refreshed from sleep, exercise, or even breathe deeply. It rests on evidence that pieces of the coronavirus that causes COVID […]
Ask the Expert: What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure?
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries. “There is no smoking gun,” he says. “If that were the case, we would have figured this out two years ago.” What exactly is long COVID? “It refers to unexplained symptoms that are […]
Terrifying ‘post-COVID syndrome’ is next focus for researchers in Bay Area and beyond
The end of the pandemic feels tantalizingly near as vaccines arrive and the pace of new infections slows. But a new coronavirus mystery is set to keep researchers busy in the Bay Area and across the country for years to come. Doctors call the medical conundrum “post-acute COVID syndrome.” Scientists prefer “post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 […]
My ‘Long Covid’ Nightmare: Still Sick After 6 Months
Since March, research studies and treatment centers had been popping up across the country to help unravel Covid’s long-term mystery. One of those is at the University of California, San Francisco. There, Michael Peluso, an infectious-diseases doctor and co-principal investigator of a study of Covid’s long-term impact, and his team have been interviewing about 250 […]
6 Months After Leaving the Hospital, Covid Survivors Still Face Lingering Health Issues
For millions of coronavirus survivors, it’s an increasingly important question: How common, how serious and how long-lasting are the physical and mental aftereffects of Covid-19? A new study — believed to be the largest so far in which doctors evaluated patients six months after they became ill — suggests that many people will experience lingering problems […]
‘What We Know About ‘Long COVID’
On this week’s episode of PODCAST-19, we do a deep dive into “long COVID,” which is when people who’ve survived COVID-19 continue to experience a variety of symptoms for weeks, or sometimes months, after their acute illness. What’s causing this disease to linger for so many people? And what will happen to our health care […]
Four Different Family Members. Four Different Covid-19 Outcomes.
The Ruspini family in Sunnyvale, Calif., went down like dominoes. One by one, they all got the coronavirus in early April, but with different symptoms and recovery trajectories… One of the biggest mysteries of the virus that causes Covid-19 is why it leads to such different experiences for the people it strikes. While some severe […]
Some Coronavirus Patients Are Reporting Symptoms That Last Months. Nobody Knows Exactly How to Treat Them
Kayla Brim laughed when she learned it could take 10 days to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, ‘Okay, well, within 10 days I should be fine,’” she remembers. That was on July 2. More than a month later, Brim is still far from fine… [With] COVID-19, it’s not just the sickest who face a […]