Top scientists from leading academic centers are banding together as research_long to answer a key question about the root cause of long COVID - whether fragments of the coronavirus persist in the tissues of some individuals. LCRI
The effort, known as the Long Covid Research Initiative, aims to streamline research and quickly pivot to clinical trials of potential treatments. By sharing diverse skill sets and resources, the group hopes to uncover the scientific underpinnings of the disease and use that to design evidence-based trials.
It includes scientists from Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of California, San Francisco, Yale University and the J. Craig Venter Institute. A growing body of evidence points to the presence of virus in tissues that continue to provoke a response from the immune system, she said.
If viral persistence is proven to cause long COVID, the research initiative aims to test antiviral treatments, such as Pfizer Inc's Paxlovid as well as other types of drugs that modulate the immune system.
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