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by JohnMakin 894 days ago
It is exciting. Before this, we could only posit wild guesses as to the physical mechanism behind long COVID (if there was one at all). In the first year or two, scientists even doubted whether it was real at all. When you know the physical mechanism, it allows you to figure out a way to treat it.
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I remember this being shown last year already...

Found the link: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sars-co...

AFAIK they even attributed the organ failures to the failures in mitocondrial energy production.

The mitochondrial damage idea was around for at least 2 years already, maybe more...
You know what a hypothesis is right?