[HN Gopher] Long-Covid R&D is collapsing: investors won't fund, ...
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Long-Covid R&D is collapsing: investors won't fund, scientifically
challenging
Author : ck2
Score : 45 points
Date : 2024-09-19 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| davidmurphy wrote:
| outrageous.
|
| gov't should be massively funding at an absolutely epic scale
| nradov wrote:
| Why? Is this a higher research priority than other medical
| conditions such as cancer or HIV? Are there plausible reasons
| to think that epic scale funding would significantly accelerate
| results?
| kbelder wrote:
| I agree. We should research it at a level appropriate for the
| damage long covid is causing. Which is probably a lot,
| because it seems like a real thing that is impacting lots of
| people; but it's far from the most important medical problem
| we have.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| This same phenomenon isn't unique to Covid either. Other
| illnesses can lead to similar debilitations. Research into
| this will give great insight into processes we hardly
| understand.
|
| Of course it's not the #1 healthcare priority now but who
| says we should only solve problem #1 and leave all the
| others hanging?
|
| I know a health worker that worked hard to save lives
| during the first phases of Covid and her life is now ruined
| due to this. I doubt she can be 'cured' but at least this
| may be prevented for others.
| stodor89 wrote:
| I think he's being sarcastic.
| ck2 wrote:
| Senator Bernie Sanders has a plan with several co-sponsors to
| try to make a 10-year "long-covid moonshot" but given how
| politics work in this country it will never happen unless
| watered down to something useless and meaningless.
|
| https://longcovidmoonshot.com/
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Well unless big pharma can cash out on it like crazy. Then
| it'll be a huge success.
| LorenPechtel wrote:
| This is talking about private funding. The problem is that we
| don't have enough understanding to know where to start and
| private funding works very poorly in such situations.
|
| And I'm sure public funding is tied up in politics. Covid is
| too politicized.
| imperialdrive wrote:
| This has very little to meaningfully do with anything, but I know
| someone that had long covid, and it ruined their life and career
| etc. because of barely being able to function more than a few
| "good" hours a day. They got covid again about two year later,
| was moderately sick for a week, and then completely healed, 100%
| back to normal. Absolutely blew my mind.
| bsder wrote:
| A lot of the hypotheses about Long <insert virus here> are
| about how well your body cleared the remnants. You can have a
| persistent reservoir of something for quite a long time until
| your body finally decides to clear it out.
|
| One of the canonical examples of this are warts from HPV. There
| are documented cases of people having persistent infections
| until they "injured" a wart somehow, their body finally took
| notice, and then their body proceeded to completely clear all
| of them.
|
| Modern medicine really does not deal with active viruses or
| their aftermath very well.
| TexanFeller wrote:
| I'm mystified by long covid prevalence reports. I live in a major
| TX city and have many friends and family that were covid deniers
| and took no precautions. I know multiple people that had
| measurable short term or long term severe lung damage, but aside
| from those I've met zero people that had long term unexplained
| effects like are described for long covid. I'm not saying it
| isn't happening, just that it's hard to imagine it's as common as
| people say.
|
| Now I do know a number of neurodivergent people(ADHD, autism,
| etc), I'm one, and people otherwise prone to depression and
| anxiety that were massively harmed by the effects of lockdown.
| It's extremely common for such people to report constant
| exhaustion for weeks/months at a time, even in normal times. I
| went through a long process of seeing multiple doctors about
| exhaustion(pre-covid) and them finding nothing wrong, and then
| finally having a therapist explain this is a common occurrence
| for neurodivergents and I'm even more so than I realized. I do
| wonder if many of the cases attributed to long covid are really
| people who became depressed or experienced something like
| autistic burnout due to the stresses and isolation of covid and
| post-covid times. The psychological effects of what happened are
| definitely underestimated.
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