Fatigue, joint pain, headaches and cognitive problems that are sometimes called brain fog. Those are the symptoms.

The illness is long COVID, a form of COVID-19 where the symptoms persist, often for years. So far there’s no proven treatment for it. But an obesity and diabetes medication called tirzepatide, has shown a lot of promise.

One doctor’s survey of patients with long COVID, who’d tried the drug, showed that 60% to 90% of them saw improvement.

“I was expecting only about 30% of the population to improve and we kind of powered the study around that. But if it’s really 60% to 90% that really would be amazing,” said Julia Moore Vogel, a professor and director of programs at Scripps Research

Vogel is leading two studies on long COVID. One of them is a clinical trial of tirzepatide,

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