A recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal reveals that the use of metformin, a widely available and low-cost diabetes medication, reduces the risk of developing long COVID by 41 percent.  Meanwhile, ivermectin, another drug that has been the subject of much debate and scrutiny, showed no significant impact on the incidence of…

Long COVID is a long-term illness that is proving to be difficult to diagnose. Doctors may not recognize the severity of long COVID, especially if lab work comes up normal. This may lead some doctors to mistakenly conclude that the patient’s symptoms are all in their heads. However, many experts are now actively working to…

Life has been on a steady downward slope for Hannah Camp Johnson, an intelligent, once-healthy 26-year-old woman from Alabama. In August 2020, she contracted COVID-19. She experienced severe symptoms, including coughing, fever, and crippling fatigue; her oxygen levels fell, and she needed to take breathing medicine. She lost her ability to walk due to muscle…

COVID survivors are at risk from a separate epidemic of opioid addiction, given the high rate of painkillers being prescribed to them, according to health experts. A new study in Nature found alarmingly high rates of opioid use among COVID survivors with lingering symptoms at Veterans Health Administration facilities. About 10 percent of COVID survivors…