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Frustrating futility on long COVID
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Posted on 09/05/2023 12:26:46 PM PDT by MNDude

"Desperate" isn't a word used often in the sterile language of elite medical journals. Yet that word alarmingly appears twice in a recent editorial from the Lancet publications about the lack of long COVID treatments.

Long COVID is the name given to the constellation of medical conditions that can potentially last for weeks, months or years after infection with the coronavirus that triggered the 2020 pandemic. These include fatigue (especially after exercise), shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty thinking (sometimes referred to as "brain fog"), fever, headaches and joint pain.

With millions of people already infected, and roughly 1 in 13 adults in the U.S. (7.5%) reporting "long COVID" symptoms (defined as symptoms lasting three or more months), the Lancet authors are understandably sounding the alarm about the scarcity of remedies to help patients. Their call to action merits both amplification and action.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; drardis; drmccullough; longcovid; news; symptoms; treatment; vaccine

1 posted on 09/05/2023 12:26:46 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude
fatigue (especially after exercise), shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty thinking (sometimes referred to as "brain fog"), fever, headaches and joint pain.

Sounds a lot like the symptoms of watching TV
2 posted on 09/05/2023 12:28:53 PM PDT by eyeamok
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“The following was brought to you by Pfizer”


3 posted on 09/05/2023 12:32:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MNDude

When we were in the Bahamas we thought I was suffering from Long Covid. I never showed symptoms of Covid, but it seemed to line up with Long Covid. Anyway, after a couple of months (some of it stateside) we cut our trip short and headed back to Miami and drove back to our home in Kentucky. Went to the doctor and it turned out I had Congestive Heart Failure and was about to die. Eleven hours on an operating table a couple of weeks later fixed it, though. I feel better than I’ve felt in years. The surgery was five months ago, BTW.

BTW, I had to take a covid test twice in the hospital. They said I didn’t have it and never had it. I’m also not vaxxed and only once wore a mask. Yet I drove all over the US and came into relatively close contact with thousands of people from all over. My wife and I don’t take Covid seriously, beyond the flu, that is. Our son got it and he was in a very bad way for a few days. He got better - only to, two months later, be killed in a car accident. The Lord works in mysterious ways.


4 posted on 09/05/2023 12:33:00 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: eyeamok

Wonder if sores or callouses on their butts are also symptoms of too much TV and video games?


5 posted on 09/05/2023 12:33:25 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MNDude

The media are doing their best to ignore the growing distress on the left, and of course the Republican pols are too inept to do anything with this, but fear of “long covid” is a huge issue for a meaningful part of the Democrat base. Worse for them, better for us, is that the issue sharply divides their key voting blocks, with the suburban female “Karen” vote increasingly demanding “action”, and any elements of the working class who haven’t abandoned the party opposing any return to lockdowns, masking, and vax mandates.

Better for the Republicans (though they won’t take advantage of it) is that any return to the depths of 2020 fully unites their base in opposition to any Dem initiative intended to mollify the Karens. Even better, the most radical left elements of their coalition are in near-open warfare with each other over the issue, again breaking down along cultural lines, splitting their college educated “elite” voters away from organized labor.

It’s political malpractice for the conservative/populist wing of the Republican party to not take advantage of this rare gift.


6 posted on 09/05/2023 12:34:43 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: MNDude

Get back to that pre-COVID feeling.

SPIKE SUPPORT

https://www.twc.health/collections/covid19/products/long-haul-formula


7 posted on 09/05/2023 12:43:03 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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“fatigue (especially after exercise), shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty thinking (sometimes referred to as “brain fog”), fever, headaches and joint pain. “

These are symptoms of allergies I get every year....


8 posted on 09/05/2023 12:45:44 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: absalom01

Where I work, at least 25% still wear masks and we haven’e had a mask mandate in 2 years. I am in Memphis.


9 posted on 09/05/2023 12:46:21 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: eyeamok

“fatigue (especially after exercise), shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty thinking (sometimes referred to as “brain fog”), fever, headaches and joint pain.

Sounds a lot like the symptoms of watching TV”

Actually, sounds a lot like smoking weed which paves the way for potheads to get medicare for this “illness”


10 posted on 09/05/2023 12:48:40 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: cuban leaf
Glad to hear you are still with us, and doing well. I never got the shots and never will. I had to take two Covid tests prior to two different medical procedures over a six-month period last year, and tested positive for both. Had no symptoms whatsoever, not even a fever. The day before I tested positive on the Covid test I took in November for cataract surgery, I had gone to the dentist for a cleaning. They won't let you in unless they check your temperature. Mine was normal.

Even during the lockdown, I never let it stop me from doing what I wanted or needed to do. I drove twice to Indiana from NY State to visit my youngest son, and spent two weeks with him each time. I stopped at every rest stop on the way out, and back, plus stayed one night in a hotel on the way out and back, and ate at restaurants while on the road. If I got Covid during those trips, I never knew it. My biggest health issue last year was my doctor changing my blood pressure medications that gave me very bad side effects. It took me 6-8 weeks to recuperate. Thankfully he retired last December, and I now have a new family doctor young enough to be my granddaughter.

11 posted on 09/05/2023 12:51:15 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MNDude
---- "... that word alarmingly appears twice...."

When a writer hyperventilates about words, it must mean something.

M E S S A G I N G

A L A R M

12 posted on 09/05/2023 12:53:33 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Psychological...and they keep it going with crap like this.


13 posted on 09/05/2023 12:55:27 PM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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The medical term they’re looking for to describe this BS is psychosis not Long Covid.


14 posted on 09/05/2023 12:57:30 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: MNDude

short COVID
long C O V I D


15 posted on 09/05/2023 12:58:38 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Dr. Ardis’s treatment (especially interesting):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9te2Fi4vaZsg8YpRUtoT3GGmPYN-3Sm/view

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Dr. McCullough’s treatment:

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/base-spike-protein-detoxification


16 posted on 09/05/2023 1:11:43 PM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: MNDude

Don’t forget other symptoms of long COVID...excess growth of hair and fingernails, excess earwax formation, strong urge to urinate when waking, etc.


17 posted on 09/05/2023 7:12:24 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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