The claim is that metformin greatly reduces viral load. If your long COVID is caused by the virus continuing to linger on 8n some tissues, as there is evidence might be the case for s9me patience, then it might. But if your long COVID is caused by microclots or lung scarring or other physiological damage caused by COVID, then no.
thenerdhead|2 years ago
> The exact pathophysiology of long COVID is unknown but is likely to be multifactorial, including the inflammatory cascade during acute infection and persistent viral replication. Mechanistic in-silico modelling predicts that translation of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins is a particularly sensitive target for inhibition of viral replication, and previous studies have shown that metformin is capable of suppressing protein translation via mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/long-covid-shows-c...