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Posted on 03/01/2024 7:15:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A recent study found that the majority of patients who suffered from long COVID during a time when vaccines and antiviral treatments were widely available were vaccinated.
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The observational study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, researchers interviewed 390 people in Thailand who contracted COVID-19 during the “fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic” when the omicron variant was dominant. Patients were followed by phone from three months after their diagnosis for a year to monitor their physical condition, mental health, sleep disturbances, and quality of life.
Out of 390 people with COVID-19, 377 (97 percent) were vaccinated, 383 (98 percent) underwent antiviral treatment, and 330 (78 percent) developed long COVID syndrome. The most frequently reported symptoms were fatigue and cough. Other reported symptoms included depression, anxiety, and poor sleep quality. The study found that patients under age 60 with a cough as an initial symptom were more likely to develop the condition. In a subset of patients with long COVID, researchers found a notable correlation in females with headaches, dizziness, and brain fog.
“Despite the extensive distribution of vaccines and antiviral therapies, the prevalence of long COVID remains high,” the authors of the paper wrote.
Although definitions of long COVID differ, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) broadly defines long COVID as “signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue to develop after acute COVID-19 infection” that can last for “weeks, months, or years.” The term “long COVID” also includes post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, long-haul COVID, and post-acute COVID-19.
According to the World Health Organization, while most people with COVID-19 recover and return to normal health, some patients, including those with mild illness, have symptoms that persist for weeks or months after recovering from acute illness.
Nearly 7 percent of U.S. adults surveyed by the CDC in 2022 said they’ve experienced long COVID. Although U.S. regulatory agencies claim vaccinating against COVID-19 can reduce the risk of developing long COVID, the current paper did not find a significant link between the presence of comorbidities or infection severity and the emergence of long COVID symptoms.
A February report published by the CDC found that more than 8 percent of participants in seven U.S. states reported having experienced long COVID symptoms. In West Virginia, almost 11 percent of survey participants reported long COVID symptoms. However, the agency did not disclose whether survey respondents were vaccinated.
Some research suggests long COVID may be caused by an immune overreaction to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that COVID-19 vaccines use to induce antibodies and that vaccination causes some people to generate a second round of antibodies that target the first.
In a February 2023 study published in the Journal of Medical Virology, researchers analyzed the levels of spike protein and viral RNA in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 with and without long COVID. They found that spike protein and viral RNA were more likely to be present in patients with long COVID.
In an August 2023 study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers found the risk of long COVID was lower in those who had previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, and the risk of getting long COVID did not differ by vaccination status. Researchers found that unvaccinated people infected with omicron had the lowest risk of long COVID.
In a 2023 study in the European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, researchers studied the serum of 81 individuals with long COVID. They found viral spike protein in one patient after the infection had cleared despite having a negative COVID-19 test, and vaccine spike protein in two patients two months after vaccination.
In a December 2022 study published in PLoS One, researchers found patients were more likely to experience long COVID if they had preexisting medical conditions, a higher number of symptoms during the acute phase of COVID-19 illness, if their infection was more severe or resulted in hospitalization, or if they had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Epoch Times contacted the CDC for comment.
Ping for your interest
What’s the ratio of vaccinated-to-unvaccinated for COVID in the US (excluding the illegals)?
Literally a surprise to no one who bothered to think. Only the NPCs believed otherwise.
people most at risk of complications from catching COVID were the people most likely to get vaccinated. Duh.
90% of those 12 and older in the U.S. have had at least one Covid vaccine shot. It would probably work out that the vast majority of people with long-covid in the U.S. have been vaccinated, and that about 90% of people who fell off ladders have been vaccinated.
I don’t remember long colds or long flu.
The common cold is often a coronavirus…
I sure seem to know a lot of 10%ers…
I do not recall the clot shot being that high in %, I recall something at best in the low 80’s
As I thought, 79% basically 270 million of the 341 million, I was a tad high.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/people-vaccinated-covid
So glad that i am a ten percenter..
I don’t see everything....but have not noticed gas_dr or Dugway Duke lately.
OOOOOOOOOOOPS!
Should’ve listened to the family sceptic.
don’t you get it
vexxationation was poison
Foreign intelligence services not paying as much or as often now for propaganda/gaslighting services.
“I don’t see everything....but have not noticed gas_dr or Dugway Duke lately.”
They are still with us.
One of the more preposterous claims made by the public health (sic) establishment, and counter to everything we’ve known for many decades, was that natural immunity was not as effective as these vaccines. This sounds like a splendid refutation of the lie.
The number I see is 81%.
You know, four years ago, the media was “all in” on blaming Trump for covid-19... relentlessly pushing the idea that somehow “blood was on his hands” because he somehow in some way could have done something different that would have prevented anyone from dying of covid-19. (They never explained exactly how).
But I wonder... do any of the saps who swallowed the media’s narrative, who believed Joe Biden when he told them that they’d never get covid if they got the vax... do they feel burned now? Are they angry about having been so shamelessly lied to? Or do they have amnesia and have basically forgotten that so much they once believe turned out to be untrue?
This is a serious question on my part. As someone who never bought the narrative, I honestly don’t know, and imagine many here are in the same position. Can anyone who has a lot of friends/family members who were in the other camp enlighten us?
No.
I got hit with the first round in early 2020.
Destroyed my lungs.
Got COVID again in 2022.
Shut down my digestive system. Began having life-threatening “novel” seizures in December of 2022.
Never vaxxed.
Prior to COVID, my husband and I spent two weeks trekking across Italy.
Not everyone who got jacked up by COVID was old, frail, out of shape, or a sheep.
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