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Progressively Widening Healthcare Costs in Long COVID Over Five Years — Jingya Cheng et al.

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Symptom Patterns, Recovery, and Impact of Long COVID: Findings From a Longitudinal Survey — Ziauddeen et al.

"Data from a 1-year follow-up of an online Long COVID survey were used." "… Long COVID remains a debilitating illness, with only 5% (n = 54) of the study sample reporting recovery."

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Acute inflammation and fronto-striatal connectivity in the transition from acute to persistent fatigue after mild COVID-19: A longitudinal fMRI study — Zhu et al.

"patients with persistent fatigue exhibited elevated acute-phase CRP levels"

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Association of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors autoantibodies with vasoregulation in Post-COVID— Felix S. Seibert et al.

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Exploratory analyses of Immunologic Features in a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir for Long COVID — Bornali Bhattacharjee et al.

"no virological or immunological evidence supports [Paxlovid] as a treatment for Long COVID."

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CD169+ and HLA-DR+ extracellular vesicles are highly represented in human plasma and dynamically expressed in SARS-CoV-2 infection and long COVID-associated sequelae — Fanelli et al.

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ICD-10 Diagnoses prior to ME/CFS diagnosis in children and young people suggest potential early diagnostic indicators — Wirth et al.

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Systematic Examination of Gene Expression and Proteomic Evidence Across Tissues Supports the Role of Mitochondrial Dysregulation in ME/CFS — Gregory R. Keele et al.

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Outcomes of ME/CFS following infectious mononucleosis: seven-year follow-up of a prospective study — Jason et al.

"Seventy-nine percent of those with Severe ME/CFS 7 years later continued to meet the criteria for ME/ CFS."

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Single-cell analysis reveals immune remodeling of monocytes, NK cells, T cell exhaustion, and Galectin-9–associated depletion of gamma delta and mucosal-associated invariant T cells in Long COVID with ME/CFS — Shahbaz et al.

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Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading for #MECFS, #LongCovid, and related news for the week of Feb. 23 - Mar. 1:

Topics:
News, advocacy and articles
Coming events
Research news and commentary
& Published research

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Jonathan Edwards and other members of @scienceforme.bsky.social are drafting a document on what we want in terms of service provision for ME/CFS. Latest draft here: www.s4me.info/threads/a-th...

All welcome to comment and make suggestions before the document before it is finalised.

🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum.

23 Feb - 1 Mar 2026

Association Between Post-COVID-19 Infection and Fibromyalgia: A Controlled Case–Control Study — Ayse Oz and Tulay Yildirim

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Single-cell transcriptomics reveal intrinsic and systemic T cell aging in COVID-19 and HIV — Alan Tomusiak et al.

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Persistent inflammatory cytokine signature in long Covid-19 patients: a meta-analysis— Dornas et al.

Review. "Elevated cytokine levels in patients with PASC support the role of persistent inflammation in the pathophysiology of ongoing symptoms."

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Early administration of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies and post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 — Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam et al.

"In our cohort, we found that early treatment with mAbs did not significantly alter the overall risk of PASC."

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Pediatric long COVID is characterized by myeloid CCR6 suppression and immune dysregulation — Jon Izquierdo-Pujol et al.

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Assessment of dynamic cerebral blood flow changes during cognitive tasks in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome — Kutz et al.

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Widespread ncaas Imprints in the Serum Proteome of COVID-19 Convalescents Uncovering Immune System Sequelae — Kun Liu et al.

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🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum.

16 - 22 Feb 2026

Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading for #MECFS, #LongCovid, and related news for the week of Feb. 16 - 22.

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Circulating mitochondrial and cellular damage markers in long COVID: Links to cognitive function, psychological distress, and inflammation — Matits et al.

"general cognition correlated positively with the relative [circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA]"

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Impaired brain intrinsic connectivity in long COVID during cognitive exertion revealed by independent component analysis — Barnden et al.

"The widespread nature of LCov connectivity abnormalities supports a hypothesis that long COVID derives from brain-wide deficits."

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Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading for #MECFS, #LongCovid, and related news for the week of Feb. 9 - 15.

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Multimodal imaging suggests potential immune-vascular contributions to altered regional brain perfusion and oxygen metabolism in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome — Martins et al.

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Genetic Insights into Circulating Complement Proteins in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Potential Inflammatory Subgroup — Jessica Maya et al.

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🧵 of highlighted #MECFS and #LongCovid research papers being discussed this week on the Science for ME forum.

9 - 15 Feb 2026

Long-term health outcomes and risk factors for low self-rated health in non-hospitalised adults with post-COVID-19 condition: a 2.5-year cohort study — Törnberg et al.

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SARS-CoV-2 reinfections and subsequent risk of hospital-diagnosed post-acute sequelae in Denmark (2020–2022): a nationwide cohort study — Khurana et al.

"Of 4,418,544 individuals, 6942 (0.16%) were diagnosed with long COVID."

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