{"id":9485,"date":"2025-05-20T20:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:08:53","slug":"long-covid-patients-are-desperate-for-treatments-these-trials-may-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/20\/long-covid-patients-are-desperate-for-treatments-these-trials-may-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/05\/16\/long-covid-treatments-trial-immune-system\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/03\/27\/long-covid-brain-cognition\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"grappling with long covid, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grappling with long covid<\/a>, even as new patients are joining their ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConsidering how far along we are and how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03173-6\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"tens of millions of people&nbsp;, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tens of millions of people&nbsp;<\/a>are suffering, we\u2019ve done very little,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scripps.edu\/faculty\/topol\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Eric Topol, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eric Topol<\/a>, a professor of translational medicine and the executive vice president of Scripps Research.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still&nbsp;grappling with long covid, even as new patients are joining their ranks. \u201cConsidering how far along we are and how&nbsp;tens of millions of people&nbsp;are suffering, we\u2019ve done very little,\u201d said&nbsp;Eric Topol, a professor of translational medicine and the executive vice president of Scripps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9486,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}