Debilitating symptoms from COVID-19 can last well past the initial course of the disease for some patients. Researchers have been trying to figure out what triggers cases of long COVID and if certain people are more susceptible to it. Dr. David Strain heads the British Medical Association’s work on the long-term impact of COVID-19. He has also had the disease himself. He recently spoke with DW. Deutsche Welle: Is there any way of speeding up recovery for sufferers of long-term COVID? Dr. David Strain: That’s a really interesting question because we don’t really know what the natural history of COVID itself is. So, I get many reports of people who, for example, are taking multi-vitamins or are taking other health supplements and swear that it has made a dramatic difference for them. But I also get reports from people who’ve done no intervention and have got dramatically better for no apparent reason. Whereas in all cases, we get people who don’t get better. At this moment in time, in the absence of randomized control trials, we don’t have any definitive answer as to what will or won’t work. Take us back to the beginning. What causes long COVID in the first place? That, in itself, is a huge question. That may help us to identify what the treatments are, but at… Read full this story
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