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Patient-Led Research for
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BioVie Inc
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Thank you to all the participants, investigators & site staff for their commitment. We are especially grateful to our advisors living with
#LongCOVID
, and advocacy partners
@solveme.bsky.social
and
@patientled.bsky.social
who supported enrollment & participation in the study.
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Enrollment is complete in our Phase 2 ADDRESS-LC clinical trial evaluating bezisterim for the treatment of neurological symptoms of Long COVID, with topline data expected in late summer 2026. Learn more:
investors.bioviepharma.com/news/news-de...
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In this Project ECHO Long Covid Webinar Series, PLRC co-lead
@loscharlos.bsky.social
talks to Dr. Alba Azola about the evidence suggesting some
#LongCovid
patients may have undiagnosed vascular compression. Dr. Azola estimates about 15% of LC patients may have some form of vascular compression.
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Alexis M.
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#BlueSunday2026
#TeaPartyForME2026
(My tea is iced this year. 🥵) supporting Open Medicine Foundation
@openmedf.bsky.social
+ monthly support to Patient Led
@patientled.bsky.social
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Shannon Knight
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I found LDN life-changing. I'm an adult, and they started me at 1.5 mg, and I wanted to die. It was so terrible. I endured, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Medical people scoffed that it couldn't be so awful since it's a micro-dose, but the horror...
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PLRC has released a letter in response to RECOVER-TLC's decision to retain their proposed dosage & titration schedule for LDN. This decision ignores public feedback, including concerns about slower titration approaches for children with
#LongCovid
. Read:
patientresearchcovid19.com/storage/2026...
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https://patientresearchcovid19.com/storage/2026/03/RECOVER-TLC-letter-LDN-pediatric-trial-1.pdf
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Watch the full presentation "Long COVID Web: Patient Perspectives on
#LongCovid
in Primary Care and Clinical Trials" here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGa...
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Long COVID Web: Patient Perspectives on Long COVID in Primary Care and Clinical Trials
YouTube video by Long COVID Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGaE6myIVU
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2. She also shared how PLRC’s work is helping to address these limitations — by incorporating patient expertise to strengthen trial design. Two of our latest papers below aim to address the current limitations in the field 👇 •
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
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www.thelancet.com/article/S147...
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Recommended long COVID outcome measures and their implications for clinical trial design, with a focus on post-exertional malaise
Long COVID has created a worldwide public health crisis and has no approved treatments or validated biomarkers. We summarize the current challenges and considerations of outcome selection in Long COVI...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(25)00533-X/fulltext
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PLRC co-lead
@leticiasaurus.bsky.social
recently presented on the state of
#LongCovid
clinical trials — and shared that findings from many trials remain inconclusive due to limitations in study design, most notably the widespread failure to account for post-exertional malaise (PEM).
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PLRC co-lead
@leticiasaurus.bsky.social
recently presented on the state of
#LongCovid
clinical trials — and shared that findings from many trials remain inconclusive due to limitations in study design, most notably the widespread failure to account for post-exertional malaise (PEM).
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This ep of “A Friend for the Long Haul” features PLRC member
@kpbanks.bsky.social
(DrPH) She describes a study where non-English speakers reported new health symptoms but hadn’t realized they were connected to their COVID infection, largely because information wasn’t available in their language.
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This ep of “A Friend for the Long Haul” features PLRC member
@kpbanks.bsky.social
(DrPH) She describes a study where non-English speakers reported new health symptoms but hadn’t realized they were connected to their COVID infection, largely because information wasn’t available in their language.
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Flora Cornish
about 1 month ago
PLRC has revolutionised patient-led research and generated ground-breaking long cocid research, in just 6 years. It is just an amazing, inspiring organisation.
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This month marks PLRC’s 6 year anniversary!! 6 years ago, we released the survey that would become the first report about
#LongCovid
- the first data that showed the world its severity. While it always bewilders us how much time has passed, we’re proud of our work. 1/
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#ApresJ20 - Association Covid Long France
about 1 month ago
🧵📄Nouvelle ressource sur le
#CovidLong
! Maintenant disponible en français 🇫🇷 Patient-Led Research Collaborative publie sa fiche d'information 2026 sur
#LongCovid
, basée sur les données scientifiques les plus récentes 👇
@patientled.bsky.social
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Billy Hanlon
about 1 month ago
Long COVID Web: 'Long COVID Web: Patient Perspectives on Long COVID in Primary Care and Clinical Trials' - Dr. Tiffany Walker, Emory Univ. - Dr. Letícia Soares, PLRC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGa...
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Long COVID Web: Patient Perspectives on Long COVID in Primary Care and Clinical Trials
YouTube video by Long COVID Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGaE6myIVU
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C.H. Romatowski
about 1 month ago
Exciting update! The drive to ask Senators to sign a request for Long Covid funding is going so well that the deadline has been extended to Monday—calls and shares this weekend will continue to help! And 13 Senators have already signed on! Ask yours to join:
tinyurl.com/LongCOVIDCall
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨
about 1 month ago
Please call your senators today!
win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
This funding would benefit Long Covid, Dysautonomia, AND ME patients 🩵 Calls help the most but if you can’t call, please email:
win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
📣GREAT NEWS📣 Just spoke to Hill champions: your hundreds of calls & emails are making such a difference, they've extended deadline for Senator sign-on to
#FundLongCOVID
Dear Colleague letter to MONDAY APRIL 20 10am ET! More
@lccampaign.bsky.social
details incoming, senators now signed: 1/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
If you're outside the U.S., please share this thread & tag community members/allies so that we get the farthest reach. EVERY CALL matters--regardless of which state someone is in! We need to let Congress know WE ARE STILL HERE and need to
#FundLongCOVID
in 2027. /end
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
Calls make the biggest impact...but if you require email, here is a tool that allows you to email✉️ your Senators with the same ask to your two Senators
tinyurl.com/LongCOVIDEmail
asking them to sign on to the Dear Colleague Letter and
#FundLongCOVID
in 2027 Appropriations. 7/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
The letter also directs NIH to focus on drug trials, biomarkers, diagnostics, & therapeutics AND to examine/target common LC-related conditions such as dysautonomia,
#POTS
, &
#MEcfs
in research that is funded. 6/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
@markey.senate.gov
(D-MA),
@kaine.senate.gov
(D-VA),
@duckworth.senate.gov
(D-IL) are championing this FY27 "Dear Colleague" letter calling for for $10 million to AHRQ
#LongCOVID
care Centers of Excellence and $200m to the NIH for LC research. 5/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
Asking your Senators to sign
#FundLongCOVID
"Dear Colleague" letter is one of most important ways to ask for care & research funding for FY27. While at the same time, we keep up calling for a multi-year authorizing
#LongCOVID
bill (ie The Ryan White CARE Act for HIV/AIDS) 4/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
As part of "Approps" process, Senators send each other "Dear Colleague" letters to sign on to, which then submitted to relevant Approps committees, asking for that funding & "report language" for the Approps bills that guides spending & accountability for next fiscal year. 3/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
Funding
#LongCOVID
is a multiple-front fight! As we continue to call for multiyear "authorizing legislation"—a big Long COVID bill—we also must work each year on "Appropriations" or annual funds the US govt spends. The Friday deadline is for Fiscal Year 2027 or "FY27" 2/x
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 1 month ago
🚨📞CALLS needed TODAY! Final push to get Senators to sign on to $210M to fund LC & related conditions in FY27 budget appropriations. This call tool routes to Senators with a script:
tinyurl.com/LongCOVIDCall
Leave a msg., if needed. More in 🧵on this
#FundLongCOVID
campaign.👇
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Solve M.E.
about 2 months ago
1/ @SenMarkey, @SenTimKaine, and @SenDuckworth are championing a FY27 “Dear Colleague” letter for $210M+ in
#LongCOVID
research — and it includes
#MECFS
,
#POTS
, and
#dysautonomia
by name. Deadline is FRIDAY. 🧵
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Liz (TheLongCovidNurse)
about 2 months ago
US friends ⬇️
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loscharlos
about 2 months ago
If you have the time/energy to make a call by Friday, this is one the best bets for new research funding for
#LongCovid
. Led by hill wiz @meighanstone.bsky.social — asking your Senators to sign on to this "Dear Colleague" letter is one of most important ways to ask for new funding for FY27.
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Amy 🌤️
about 2 months ago
Please take a few minutes to contact your senators. We need to
#FundLongCOVID
#LongCovidKids
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨
about 2 months ago
Please call or email your Senators by close of business Friday 4/17 & ask them to sign on to the “Dear Colleague” letter for Long Covid funding: Call tool:
win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
Email tool:
win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
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C.H. Romatowski
about 2 months ago
Deadline for this is tomorrow! Make a pair of quick calls to ask your Senators to support funding for Long Covid in FY27 Appropriations! Call tool:
tinyurl.com/LongCOVIDCall
#LongCovid
#NEISvoid
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Long COVID Campaign | www.longcovidcampaign.org
about 2 months ago
📣U.S. Action Item:
#pwLC
#POTS
#pwME
#NEISVoid
we need your help! Will you contact your Senators & ask them to sign on to the FY27 Senate “Dear Colleague” Letter for over $210 million to
#FundLongCOVID
in 2027 Appropriations using our EASY low-spoons call/email tool?🧵
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loscharlos
about 2 months ago
"The Guide explains how each treatment may be helpful.. type of LC patient it may help, provides dosages.. study evidence, citations, and in a helpful twist, a list of other ME/CFS and
#LongCovid
guides which support using the treatment. All of that in a compact, attractive format."
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Explorations #2: The RTHM and Patient-Led Research Collaborative Long COVID Treatment Guide - Health Rising
Check out the The free RTHM and Patient-Led Research Collaborative Long COVID Treatment Guide and why we may FDA approved drugs for long COVID quicker than you might think.
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/04/06/rthm-plrc-long-covid-treatment-guide/
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loscharlos
about 2 months ago
From
@cortjohnson.bsky.social
: “The free
@rthm.bsky.social
&
@patientled.bsky.social
#LongCovid
Treatment Guide is one of those publications that makes you wonder, ‘Why hasn’t this been done before?’ A succinct, evidence-based guide drs can quickly turn to learn about LC treatments.”
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New paper in
@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social
from PLRC by
@chloedecanson.bsky.social
,
@leticiasaurus.bsky.social
,
@chromatowski.bsky.social
/
@romatowski.bsky.social
and Gina Assaf: "The case for routine patient review in
#LongCovid
research.” 🧵1/11
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The case for routine patient review in long COVID research
Long COVID is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection and can lead to sometimes severe disability.1–3 In early 2024, long COVID had already affected 400 millio...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(26)00134-9/abstract
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Julia MV
2 months ago
"Long COVID received 14% of its disability commensurate funding... ME/CFS is the most under-funded condition, receiving <1% of its YLD [years lived with disability] proportionate funding." Plus the LC disability weight of 0.21 likely underestimates its burden.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Long COVID disability burden in US adults - Communications Medicine
Bonuck et al. quantified the disability burden of Long COVID in U.S. adults using years lived with disability and compared its NIH funding to that of 68 other conditions by sex predominance. Long COVI...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01516-7
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Sensible gremlin tux
2 months ago
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Margaret O’Hara
2 months ago
Those researchers who routinely do patient involvement know the value of the insights of the people who actually have the disease To enable involvement of pwLC at all stages of research
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
offer a Research Involvement Consultancy service.
www.longcovid.org/research/res...
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Sis
2 months ago
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid
2 months ago
Yes. Now.
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Ginger Billie
2 months ago
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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C.H. Romatowski
2 months ago
A total pleasure to collaborate on this with a
@patientled.bsky.social
team:
@chloedecanson.bsky.social
,
@leticiasaurus.bsky.social
, and
@ginaassaf.bsky.social
!
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C.H. Romatowski
2 months ago
I esp want to highlight the last line: “Routine patient review could also serve as a model for incentivising patient involvement in research across other infection-associated chronic conditions and beyond.” We focused on the case of Long COVID, but think the model has potential well beyond it!
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C.H. Romatowski
2 months ago
Thrilled we have this new Comment out in
@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social
, arguing that to give Long COVID scientists more incentive to incorporate patient expertise throughout the research process, LC papers should all be subject to pre-publication review by patients. Free to read w/registration!
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Andy Radde-Gallwitz
2 months ago
Wow, this is an incredible contribution.
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Chloé de Canson
2 months ago
The paper is available to read for free (if you register) here:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Chloé de Canson
2 months ago
Thanks to the fantastic author team
@leticiasaurus.bsky.social
,
@romatowski.bsky.social
@chromatowski.bsky.social
, and Gina Assaf, all from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative (
@patientled.bsky.social
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Chloé de Canson
2 months ago
In sum, routine patient review for all manuscripts has the potential to increase patient participation in science, incentivise uptake of our expertise, and thus improve scientific outputs, bringing us closer to finally achieving approved treatments. 10/
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