“INCLUSION OF MEGLUMINE ACRIDONE ACETATE (MA): CYCLOFERON
“Beyond persistent symptoms, Long COVID is also associated with an increased risk for significant medical events, including major adverse cardiovascular events and new-onset diabetes mellitus.(1) For many people, Long COVID has a significant impact on their ability to work, study, take care of their families, and participate in other activities of daily living. For these reasons, Long COVID is often described as a “mass disabling event.”(2) Long COVID can also lead to financial hardship, social isolation, and mental health challenges.”
“A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic suggests that being vaccinated against COVID-19 does little to prevent long COVID.
The findings contradict what has become conventional wisdom in the last 3 years—that vaccines offer a chance to significantly reduce the risk of long COVID, or new or persistent symptoms 3 months or more after infection, most likely by reducing the severity of infection.
Melanie Swift, MD, MPH, was the lead author of the study, which was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. She said despite the current thinking that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long COVID, she wasn’t surprised she found no association.”
“I’ve been like this now for four and a half years nearly, and it’s baffling to not just the people who have it, but it’s baffling to the doctors,” she says. “They are some very smart people who are investigating and studying it and doing research, but all they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies.
“I got some really good scans done and they found that at some point I had had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart,” Samms continues. “The consequences of COVID — I think we still have only just scratched the surface, and it’s terrifying to me that people think we are no longer in a pandemic. Because they so desperately want it to not affect them, they sort of pretend that it is has gone, and it so hasn’t.”
“Repeated studies show in the bluntest terms that the initial acute infection is only the tip of the iceberg. Even a mild bout of COVID can leave a legacy of blood clots, heart failure, diabetes, decreased brain function (see sidebar), long COVID (now affecting 400 million people worldwide) and immune damage that increasingly makes people more vulnerable to a plethora of infectious diseases and possibly cancers.
These problems can erupt three years after an infection”
Study on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for Long Covid
After 3 months, 65% reported improved quality of life, especially in cognitive functions, but 15% experienced worsening symptoms.
Long COVID Clinical Evaluation, Research and Impact on Society: A Global Expert Consensus
Background: Long COVID is a complex, heterogeneous syndrome affecting at least one hundred million people globally.
Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in African countries report ongoing symptoms, with fatigue being the most common.
Up to 25% of patients experience mental health issues like PTSD and anxiety, which African health systems are unprepared to address.
translation/analysis thread on German Long Covid video which equates it with MECFS and calls ME “the most serious form of long covid.”
“currently it looks like an autoimmune disease where something has gone wrong with the vasculature, and both the mitochondrial dynamics and glycolytic metabolism are disturbed.
There are at least 500k patients in Germany.”
“We have lived through a Covid summer – and there is new cause for concern
With lives being turned upside down by sudden illness and a steady mortality rate related to the disease, Covid and its after-effects are still looming menacingly over us. Zoë Beaty talks to experts and those suffering to find out more”
“Asking @CDCgov, from my bedroom, where I'm moored because of #LongCovid, why the CDC isn't recommending masking -- alongside handwashing, vaxes and testing (which they are recommending). Alt text of response from Dr. Brendan Jackson below. 1/7”
Excellent thread:
Approximately 16 million working-age Americans (aged 18 to 65) have long Covid today.
Of those, 2 to 4 million are out of work due to long Covid.
The annual cost of those lost wages alone is around $170 billion a year (potentially as high as $230 billion).
Not. The. Flu. Not. Mild. NOT. OVER.
Actually, Democrats, Covid DOES continue to rule our lives.
