Long covid linked to blood issues; signs of ongoing inflammatory responses --preliminary British study

Long covid linked to signs of ongoing inflammatory responses in blood People with long covid after a serious covid-19 infection have raised levels of many immune molecules in their blood. Better understanding how these molecules can vary could lead to more targeted treatments #author.fullName} New Scientist

People who develop long covid after being hospitalised with severe covid-19 have raised levels of many inflammatory immune molecules compared with those who recovered fully after such a hospitalisation, according to a study of nearly 700 people.

The findings show that long covid has a real biological basis, says team member Peter Openshaw at Imperial College London. “People are not imagining it,” he says. “It’s genuinely happening to them.”