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Long-COVID treatments: why the world is still waiting

After a slow start, researchers are beginning to test ways to combat the lasting symptoms of the disease.
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Conceptual illustration showing long covid patients with a long road ahead.

Illustration by Erick M. Ramos

Bhasha Mewar has had it with doctors. Over the past two years, Mewar has spent nearly all of her life savings seeing heart and respiratory specialists, haematologists, urologists, dermatologists and more, in a desperate bid to tame her long-COVID symptoms. She has taken a slew of drugs: beta blockers to calm her racing heart, steroid inhalers to ease her laboured breathing and an antimalarial drug prescribed to her for reasons she never fully understood.

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Nature 608, 258-260 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02140-w

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