There’s something sort of like that already.
There’s this: persistent symptoms survey #2
That survey asked about symptoms (65 or something). it has a free-form question for test results that came back positive.
Also see the results from the Treatment Outcomes Survey… the whole targeted treatment thing generally doesn’t seem to work.
Phenotypes / different types of Long COVID???
See the post below for a deep dive.
Right now it looks like most patients overlap heavily. (From a medical perspective.
There are big differences in terms of how people report their symptoms.)
Bruce Patterson’s IncellDX group has tried that with their cytokine panel testing. In practice, their concierge doctors often ignore the test results and just recommend statin+maraviroc anyways even if the test results don’t call for it. The cytokine stuff never worked for ME/CFS by the way.
At the end of the day, it would be amazing if there was testing that helps guide treatment. But for the most part, it doesn’t exist right now.
Eventually more and more NGS (next generation sequencing) testing will be done on patients and we’ll see if that technolgy is useful. It’s relatively cheap and is getting cheaper very quickly.