Medical News.Net For millions suffering from long COVID, their persistent breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue remain a maddening mystery, but a group of leading microbiologists think they may have cracked the case.
The culprit for some long COVID cases, they suggest, might be other infections that accompany SARS-CoV-2.
A review published in eLife by 17 experts, including those from Rutgers Health, argues that co-infections acquired before or during COVID could cause symptoms to persist indefinitely for many people.
“This is an aspect of long COVID that is not talked about a lot,” said Maria Laura Gennaro, a microbiologist at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who chaired the Microbiology Task Force for the National Institutes of Health’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery initiative, a large-scale study of long COVID.
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