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Psychologist James Jackson says people with long COVID experience impaired brain function and mental health issues. He offers some practical advice and support in his new book, Clearing the Fog.
Clinical leaders from Penn Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are among the awardees of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' 2023 leadership awards.
Long COVID patients who are feeling suicidal are building digital support communities.
Some people do not believe long COVID (also known as post-COVID-19 condition) is real. In fact, patients have reported that there are even doctors who sit in this camp, who might dismiss their symptoms as psychosomatic, or do not know how to recognise or treat long COVID. It is complicated, even for researchers. People might not have had severe symptoms when infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, they might be young, without a significant medical history or risk factors. Although studies suggest around 10–20% of individuals who did not have severe acute disease might develop long COVID symptoms, th...
Brain scans, autopsies, and other sources of evidence are revealing how Covid-19 can affect the brain and cause long Covid.