Why long Covid will be a long haul

Some preliminary studies have already suggested that imbalances in the microbiome of long Covid patients could be contributing towards their persistent inflammatory symptoms. But while more research is likely to be needed before medications like prebiotics or anti-inflammatories are recommended for long Covid patients as part of general clinical practice, some individual symptoms are already proving more treatable than others.

Heightman says that long Covid patients displaying allergic-type reactions tend to respond well to anti-histamines, while Amy Kontorovich, a cardiologist at Mount…