[hilbertseries]

You’re not paying attention if you think this is the first evidence of long covid. There’s been significant strides towards understanding long covid in terms of microclots and viral persistence.

https://cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12933-02...

For this pathology long covid can be treated with so called triple therapy for instance

https://medhelpclinics.com/uploads/files/anticoagulant-tripl...

[darkerside]

Parent is saying it's the first evidence of TREATMENT.

Incidentally, my bet is that many other viruses and bacteria have similar post acute symptoms. I wonder if these can also be measured and treated, perhaps even with metformin. I wonder how much of metformin's magical anti aging capabilities are actually due to fighting off latent infections.

[nradov]

I don't know about bacteria, but post viral syndrome has been measured for decades with other viruses.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3320358/

Metformin doesn't have any "magical" anti-aging properties. It is effective for treating certain metabolic conditions such as type-2 diabetes but it has never been proven to extend lifespan in otherwise healthy humans (or any other higher primate). There are some significant negative side effects.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama45/

[hilbertseries]

Triple therapy is a treatment that proceeds it. Metformin isn’t a treatment, it’s a prophylactic.

[ethanbond]

They’re quite clearly saying that the effectiveness of the treatment is actually “the first” solid evidence of the disease.

Which is wrong, it’s not the first, but it is also pretty darn good evidence to add to the pile, so it’s not that wrong. It’s just the evidence that appears to have convinced GP, which is cool to see happen in real time!

[henearkr]

And, recently discovered too, inflammation-induced neuron mergings.