Long COVID Public Requested Research Initiative
by Dr Abdul Mannan Baig
Long-COVID is a devastating illness estimated to affect over 160 million people worldwide which is about 10%-30% of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 infection. It is not just a slow recovery from an acute COVID infection but in many cases an entirely new illness with a host of debilitating symptoms.
Long COVID sufferers need urgent help before it’s too late. The longer their suffering goes on, the more are the chances that their illness will become irreversible, causing disability and mortalities. So far, there is no approved or widely known effective treatment. Patients are left alone and isolated, fighting for their lives while the medical community sits on the fence, unable to act.
But there is hope!
Dr. Abdul Mannan Baig, Long COVID-19 Foundation (UK registered charity) Scientific and Medical Advisor, was the first scientist who provided evidence of the COVID-19 virus targeting the CNS via the nose: tissue distribution, host-virus interaction, and proposed neurotropic mechanisms back in 2020. Later Dr. Baig started to investigate mechanisms involved in Long-COVID like residual viral, microthrombi formation and immune system dysfunction. As such, Dr. Baig published numerous peer-reviewed research articles on molecules that have the potential to tackle Long-COVID as has coined ways to find solutions for patients suffering from this debilitating disease.
Most importantly, Dr. Baig’s Twitter followers who suffer from Long-COVID want to fund the discovery of solutions for their illnesses via this funding. They have inspired Dr. Baig to use the fund to find diagnostic and treatment modalities for Long-COVID and MECFS. His help to the Long-COVID community will begin after 1st June 2023, the day of his retirement.
This funding will help Dr. Baig to:
1. Find solutions to prevent and dissolve the thrombotic mechanisms in Long-COVID
2. Find antivirals that can eradicate SARSCoV2 in Long-COVID suffers
3. Design methods to remove prothrombotic molecules from the blood of patients with Long-COVID
This is crucial research that could improve recovery outcomes and help millions of people see an end to this awful illness.
Your donation – no matter how small – could help a friend, a family member, or a neighbour recover from Long-COVID and even pre-Covid ME. Please donate today and share with others to help the team kickstart this project.
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