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Covid-19 patients are doing their own research Citizen science, the name given to a range of scientific projects in which patients participate, covers myriad experiences. (Bloomberg) Amy Dockser Marcus , The Wall Street Journal To advance scientific knowledge of the disease, lay people are organizing to generate data about their experiences Share Via Read Full Story A month after her Covid-19 diagnosis last March, Lisa McCorkell wanted to know why she was still struggling with a cough, shortness of breath and other debilitating symptoms. Her doctors didn’t have answers, so she and a group...

'Long Covid' is a real and pressing concern, warns US National Institutes of Health director From CNN's Naomi Thomas Dr. Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health, has highlighted the need to understand more about lingering Covid-19 symptoms, and encouraged people to participate in a survey about the experience. Over 400,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19, Collins wrote in a blog post, “but thousands of others who’ve gotten sick and survived Covid-19 are finding that a full recovery can be surprisingly elusive.”  He described emerging “Long Covid...