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Severe flu infections can lead to a range of deadly complications, especially in people whose immune systems are compromised by age or disease.

LiveScience

COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds. 'We don’t know what’s going to happen at 10 years'

A new report reinforces that the virus is not going away.

Fortune

Can nasal Neosporin prevent COVID-19?

A potential treatment for COVID-19 may have been hiding in our medicine cabinets, a new study in PNAS has found

Salon

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A Common Antibiotic Could Prevent, Treat Respiratory Illnesses Including COVID-19: Study

Antibiotic neomycin through the nasal passage triggers a robust interferon-stimulated genes (ISG) line of defense against both SARS-CoV-2 and a highly virulent strain of influenza A virus, the results of an animal study revealed.

Medical Daily

A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles

Long COVID patients can experience severe energy crashes after physical exertion. New research provides clear evidence that there's a biological basis for the symptoms.

WEKU

Inside long COVID’s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer

'There’s not great evidence to support SARS-CoV-2 being an oncogenic virus–but this virus has surprised us over and over.'

Fortune

Unraveling long COVID: Here's what scientists who study the illness want to find out

At a recent medical gathering, researchers presented their latest hypotheses about what causes – and what could treat – the lingering disease.

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Is Covid-19 Creeping Back? Here’s What You Should Know About This Summer’s Uptick in Cases

Hospitalizations from Covid-19 are at their highest point since last December, which may be due to the extreme heat driving people indoors.

Inverse

Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: ‘We are not done with Covid, not even close’

The Yale professor and long Covid expert on why the virus is causing ongoing illness for so many, and the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in science

The Guardian - UK

Scientists hope nasal vaccines will help halt Covid transmission

Unlike jabs, nasal vaccines target the respiratory tract, the body’s first line of defence against infection

The Guardian - UK

Striking drop in stress hormone predicts long COVID in study

Striking decreases in the stress hormone cortisol were the strongest predictor for who develops long COVID in new research that identified several potential drivers of the lingering symptoms afflicting millions of survivors.

Tribune News Service

Omicron poses about half the risk of long COVID as delta, new research finds

Some scientists estimate that cases of long COVID from omicron will still rise, however, because of high transmissibility and the misconception that people don't have to worry about catching it.

WEKU

Long COVID mystery: Do vaccines help or hurt?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After months of struggling with long COVID, 25-year-old Ibrahim Rashid was excited to be vaccinated, seeking to prevent reinfection and perhaps ease his symptoms.

Tribune News Service

Coronavirus persisting in feces offers clues to long COVID cause

COVID-19 patients can harbor the coronavirus in their feces for months after infection, researchers found, stoking concern that its persistence can aggravate the immune system and cause long COVID symptoms.

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The Independent UK

Covid nasal spray could replace vaccine jabs as scientists rethink fight against virus

A nasal spray could block the transmission of Covid-19, scientists say

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Covid nasal spray could replace vaccine jabs as scientists rethink fight against virus

A nasal spray could block the transmission of Covid-19, scientists say

The Independent UK

How long Covid is accelerating revolution in medical research

Scientists are empowering patients to assist with medical research about long Covid and other conditions

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