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Metformin shown to prevent long COVID across risk groups in multiple randomized trials

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Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says

Finding suggests as many as 155,000 deaths, likely occurring outside of hospitals, not recognized as Covid related

Associated Press
Wed 18 Mar 2026 18.54 GMT

The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths.

About 840,000 Covid-19 deaths were reported on death certificates in 2020 and 2021. But a group of researchers – using a form of artificial intelligence – estimate that as many as 155,000 unrecognized additional deaths likely occurred in that time outside of hospitals. That would mean about 16% of Covid-19 deaths went uncounted in those years.

The overall findings, published on Wednesday by the journal Science Advances, were close to estimates from other studies of pandemic deaths during that time. But the authors of the new study tried to determine exactly which deaths were more likely to be missing from the official tallies.

The answer: the undiagnosed dead were more likely to be Hispanic people and other people of color, who had died in the first few months of the pandemic, and who had been in certain states in the south and south-west – including Alabama, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Six years after the coronavirus swept through the US, barriers remain for many of the same people, said Steven Woolf, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher not involved in the study.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... death-toll

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Study Offers New Insight Into Long Covid
May 31, 2026

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(Futurity) Since the COVID-19 pandemic first swept the world in 2020, the chronic condition known as long COVID has baffled the medical community.

In the years since, scientists have tried to determine why a subset of patients infected with the virus develop lingering—and sometimes disabling—symptoms that can last long after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The new study co-led by Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki yields intriguing new insights.

Writing in the journal CELL, the team of researchers report strong evidence that, in at least a subset of people with long COVID, the body’s immune system launches an autoimmune attack against the patient’s own cells, causing a cascade of symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, weakness, and other hallmarks of the condition. Autoimmune disorders occur when the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues.

The findings suggest that long COVID may overlap with autoimmune diseases, even though it doesn’t perfectly resemble any known autoimmune condition, says Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and co-senior author of the study.

Read more here: https://www.futurity.org/long-covid-au ... -3337492

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