abc.net.au

Spaghetti_Hitchens, 2 years ago to upliftingnews in 'Five or six minutes of maximum intensity': Steven Bradbury hailed a hero after saving four people from drowning

Absolute badass. I would have added to the body count if I attempted that.

Drusas, 2 years ago to upliftingnews in Scientists developing new drugs that could treat Long Covid and prevent reinfection

Australian scientists are preparing to undertake human trials within months of two new drugs they've developed to prevent COVID-19 infection, and treat people who've been exposed to the virus so they don't develop severe disease.

Sounds like these are not aimed at Long Covid/ME but at infection.

Chetzemoka, 2 years ago to upliftingnews in Scientists developing new drugs that could treat Long Covid and prevent reinfection

So, the thing is this is based on a particular hypothesis that Long Covid is caused by lingering, chronic, low-level viral infection that results in an overactive immune system. While that may be true in a subset of Long Covid suffers, the long history of post-viral syndromes like ME/CFS make me pretty skeptical that an anti-viral drug is going to have much impact on most of Long Covid.

But that's my own hypothesis.

nix, 2 years ago

hopefully this research helps them figure out a cure to ME/CFS as well