Three years into the pandemic, unanswered questions about the condition limit physicians’ ability to treat patients
ore than three years into the Covid pandemic, there are a host of important unanswered questions about long Covid, which significantly limit healthcare providers’ ability to treat patients with the condition, according to US physicians and scientists.
In addition to the ambiguity around the root causes of long Covid, there are also challenges in research because of how Covid can produce so many different symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionfatigue, respiratory issues and difficulty thinking or concentrating but also states that “post-Covid conditions may not affect everyone the same way”.
“We are struggling in academia to come up with a definition [of the condition] that will work, and we are hoping to engage people who regulate clinical trials and hope to engage industry once we have made some progress,” said Deeks, who is also considered an expert in HIV. Answering questions about the fundamental problems with long Covid could take years, researchers said.
She argues that there has not been significant urgency about conducting trials for drugs that could treat the condition. The co-chair of a $1.2bn NIH initiative to study long Covid cases acknowledged frustration with the pace of research and said starting enrollment of patients “took way too much time”,“Those clinical trials really need to start immediately because we won’t see results from them for years and people are reaching the three-year mark and are suffering,” Davis said.
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