{"id":67623,"date":"2026-10-13T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67623"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:37:36","slug":"the-invisible-inflammation-smoldering-macrophages-can-explain-long-covid-despite-normal-blood-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67623","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Inflammation: Smoldering Macrophages Can Explain Long COVID Despite Normal Blood Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Smoldering_Macrophages.jpg\" alt=\"Smoldering Macrophages\" width=\"726\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Smoldering_Macrophages.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Smoldering_Macrophages-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new study finds no detectable differences in circulating monocytes or inflammatory markers in patients with prolonged, severe Long COVID. Could the inflammation be hiding in the tissues instead?<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wmcresearch.substack.com\/p\/the-invisible-inflammation-smoldering\">https:\/\/wmcresearch.substack.com\/p\/the-invisible-inflammation-smoldering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds no detectable differences in circulating monocytes or inflammatory markers in patients with prolonged, severe Long COVID. Could the inflammation be hiding in the tissues instead? Finish reading:\u00a0https:\/\/wmcresearch.substack.com\/p\/the-invisible-inflammation-smoldering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67625,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67623\/revisions\/67625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}