Long COVID still has no cure — so these patients are turning to research

Babesia microti, a malaria-like illness that could explain the fevers, chills, and day and night sweats and that account for some of their resistant symptoms. Once treated, some patients using wheelchairs could stand and walk. Next was the discovery of cat scratch disease symptoms, or Bartonella, which could explain their resistant neurological sym

something like autoimmune disease or long COVID falls into the third category of illness; it combines biology and biography in ways that are difficult for most of us (whether scientists or laypeople) to conceptualize.

ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and a Western blot, through a reliable laboratory), with confirmatory evidence of other tick-borne diseases as well.

the COVID-19 pandemic has given us a keen sense of how variable the human response to infection can be, vividly dramatizing the ways that a virus or bacterium (or multiple viruses and bacteria) can collide with an individual’s biology to unleash a host of perplexing aftereffects in the body, often incited by the individual’s immune system. The scop