Medical Xpress July 26, 2024
UC San Francisco scientists have found that SARS-CoV-2 can linger in the body for years and could be driving a global epidemic in long COVID.
They’re also exploring the surprising long-term risks of getting COVID in pregnancy.
Assistant Professor of Medicine Michael Peluso, MD, heads UCSF’s LIINC program, short for “Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus,” a university-wide effort to understand one of COVID-19’s most enduring challenges. Peluso and Professor of Pediatrics Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH, lead components of the National Institutes of Health’s long COVID consortium, RECOVER—or Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery.
Peluso and Flaherman tell us what we know about long COVID—and what we don’t.
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