Long-term complications after COVID-19 are common, but the potential cause for persistent symptoms after viral clearance remains unclear.To investigate whether gut microbiome composition is linked to post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS), defined as at ...

Treatment for Chronic COVID

In this second in the series of expert interviews, I talk with Dr Bruce Patterson about the pathology of Long Covid, his latest research results which suggest residual viral protein is responsible for triggering long haulers symptoms, and just what the implications of that might be for treatment and recovery. References: Patterson et al, paper 1: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423122v1 Cheung et al, Viral debris in gut and liver: https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/01/gutjnl-2021-324280 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Dr Patterson's background 2:43 Viral debris 6:52 Where is it coming from? 9:39 Is it specific to long haulers? 13:30 Why so many long haulers from wave 1? 16:35 Other evidence of viral persistence 19:20 The role of the gut 21:10 What about auto antibodies? 22:31 What role do hormones play? 24:53 Treatment 28:53 Can we treat the cause? 31:00 Do steroids have a role in treatment? 32:53 Dream research project 35:00 The third paper 35:47 Conclusion