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Distinct Immune, Hormone Responses Shed Light on Mysteries of Long COVID
People who have experienced symptoms for months or longer after being infected exhibit different immune and hormonal responses to the virus, a new study finds.
Source: YaleNews
25 Sep 2023
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Yale researchers develop nasal spray mRNA vaccine for COVID-19
Yale researchers, led by Professor Mark Saltzman, have successfully created an mRNA no-shot COVID vaccine, which successfully protects against COVID-19 in mice.
Source: Yale Daily News
8 Sep 2023
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What is ‘long vax’? Symptoms linked to COVID-19 shot baffle docs
Researchers say long vax could be due to an immune overreaction to the Covid protein.
Source: New York Post
6 Jul 2023
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Why Does COVID-19 Cause Severe Illness in Some Patients but Not Others?
A new study harnesses big data and bioinformatics to explore how the immune system can fight off the virus in some cases and fails in others.
9 Jun 2023
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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.
Source: The Guardian
27 May 2023
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Vaccination Has a Lower Risk of Autoantibody Development Than COVID Natural Immunity
Yale researchers report that while both mRNA vaccines and SARS CoV-2 infection build immunity to the virus, they did not see new autoantibodies in those who received the vaccination. This finding contradicts a claim that COVID vaccines trigger autoimmune responses.
14 Apr 2023
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Participant-centric Trial Will Test if Antiviral Paxlovid Can Help With Long COVID
Researchers are still in the dark on the mechanisms underlying and how to treat long COVID. A new clinical trial using the oral antiviral Paxlovid will provide urgently needed insights for COVID long-haulers and their providers.
3 Apr 2023
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Long-covid symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic
Americans infected with the coronavirus’s omicron variant are less likely to develop symptoms typical of long covid than those who had covid-19 earlier in the pandemic, according to the largest-ever study of who is most vulnerable to being sickened — or debilitated — by the virus’s lingering effects.
Source: The Washington Post
18 Mar 2023
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What people with ‘super immunity’ can teach us about COVID and other viruses
Do a lucky few have a kind of biological armor against infection? Scientists are just beginning to unlock the mystery of the true Covid dodgers.
Source: NBC News
10 Mar 2023
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Will Long COVID Research Provide Answers for Poorly Understood Diseases Like ME/CFS?
ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) is a highly disabling, severe condition that has been largely overlooked and even questioned as an illness by physicians and biomedical researchers for decades. But now, scientists including Yale's Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz are finding parallels between post-infection long COVID and ME/CFS.
1 Nov 2022
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COVID-19 Virus Increases Risk for Other Infections by Disrupting Normal Mix of Gut Bacteria
Infection with the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, can reduce the number of bacterial species in a patient’s gut, with the lesser diversity creating space for dangerous microbes to thrive, a new study finds.
Source: NYU Langone Health
1 Nov 2022
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When Will the Pandemic End? And Other Pressing Questions, Answered
While the risks of deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19 are substantially lower now, navigating this phase of the pandemic can be frustrating and confusing.
Source: The New York Times
12 Aug 2022
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Study Empowers Long COVID Patients as They Struggle to Find Relief
Yale researchers Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, and Harlan Krumholz, MD, are striving to solve the mysteries of long COVID, and to provide a compassionate voice for those feeling isolated and ignored by the medical community.
2 Aug 2022
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Why You'll Need to Get COVID-19 Boosters Again and Again
"We need to educate, maintain, and improve T and B cell responses to prevent severe disease."
Source: Time
19 Jul 2022
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The Answer to Stopping the Coronavirus May Be Up the Nose
The Covid-19 vaccines authorized for use today were developed at unprecedented speed and surpassed expectations in how well they worked. The billions of people who are protected by them have avoided severe symptoms, hospitalization and deaths. These vaccines are a scientific success beyond measure. And yet they could be even better.
Source: The New York Times
16 May 2022
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Why a Coronavirus-Flu ‘Twindemic’ May Never Happen
Scientists are exploring a theory suggesting that exposure to one respiratory virus helps the body fend off competing pathogens.
Source: The New York Times
8 Apr 2022
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The Covid Vaccine We Need Now May Not Be a Shot
Nasal vaccines under development around the world may make better boosters by stopping the coronavirus in the airways.
Source: The New York Times
1 Feb 2022
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In search of answers about long COVID-19, scientists turn to social media
In search of answers about long COVID-19, scientists turn to social media.
25 Jan 2022
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Vaccine Used in Much of the World No Match for Omicron Variant
An analysis of blood serum from 101 individuals from the Dominican Republic showed that omicron infection produced no neutralizing antibodies among those who received the standard two-shot regimen of the Sinovac vaccine. Antibody levels against omicron rose among those who had also received a booster shot of the mRNA vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.
Source: YaleNews
20 Jan 2022
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Nasal Vaccination May Protect Against Respiratory Viruses Better Than Injected Vaccines
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, discusses her lab's finding that intranasal vaccinations, by triggering immune properties of mucosal membranes, may offer better protection against respiratory viruses than injected vaccines.
20 Dec 2021