Science strikes back against long Covid skeptics

This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on [Bloomberg]( This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership. [Long Covid Is Real. Now the Evidence Is Piling Up.]( — Lisa Jarvis Finally, the hunt for answers about long Covid is yielding some clues. A new study, led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Yale School of Medicine and [published in Nature](, defines some critical differences in certain biomarkers of people with long Covid. The next step is even more critical: coming up with a way to cure them. A massive number of people in the US are dealing with lingering symptoms. Two [new]( [reports]( from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2022, some 18 million adults said they had ever had long Covid, with about 8.8 million currently suffering from the condition. In that time, roughly 1 million children had been affected — with about 360,000 children reporting an ongoing case. Those millions of people don’t all have the same symptoms — some experience brain fog and extreme fatigue, while others may have shortness of breath or a racing pulse — and their susceptibility to the disease is formed by a likely long list of factors. Those could include their medical histories, their previous vaccinations, prior infections, and even [their genes](. Because of that, long Covid has defied simple explanations. And so far, doctors must base their diagnoses on sometimes vague symptoms, rather than on a molecule that can be measured, or a true biomarker of the disease. Read the [whole thing](. [Biden Steps Forward on Asylum Crisis]( — Michael R. Bloomberg [China Is Benefiting From the Sikh Murder Fallout]( — Karishma Vaswani [Shutdown Politics Just Got Harder for Kevin McCarthy]( — Jonathan Bernstein [Rupert Murdoch Was the Last of the Press Barons]( — Adrian Wooldridge [Lina Khan Isn’t Wrong About Amazon]( — Dave Lee [Gensler Reminds Hedge Funds He's Still Sheriff of Wall Street]( — Paul J. Davies [Hong Kong’s Billionaire Debt Kings Are Losing Their Mojo]( — Shuli Ren [Ackman Doubles Down on Bond Short That’s Still Flawed]( — Jonathan Levin [With Fossil Fuels, ‘Peak Demand’ Isn’t What It Sounds Like]( — Javier Blas More From Bloomberg Opinion Here’s what we’ve been listening to this week. - [Crash Course: In the Race for President, It’s All About Party]( with Timothy L. O’Brien - [X Broadcast: The Vibes and the Data Are STILL Out of Whack: What's Going On?]( with Jonathan Levin, Kyla Scanlon and Claudia Sahm Follow Us You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Opinion Today newsletter. If a friend forwarded you this message, [sign up here]( to get it in your inbox. [Unsubscribe]( [Bloomberg.com]( [Contact Us]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( [Ad Choices](