Posted on 03/07/2021 6:16:29 AM PST by House Atreides
DanielDaniel Griffin wasn’t sure what to expect when his patients with chronic COVID-19 symptoms started getting vaccinated. There was some concern that the shots might make things worse by triggering the immune system. Luckily, the opposite seemed to be true.
“I started getting texts and calls from some of my colleagues saying hey, are your patients with long COVID reporting that they’re feeling better after the vaccine?” says Griffin, an infectious diseases clinician and researcher at Columbia University. When he started talking with patients, he saw that they were. “It’s not 100 percent, but it does seem like to be around a third,” he says.
Early reports from Griffin and others hint that people with persistent symptoms may improve after getting vaccinated. Information is still limited, and the data is largely anecdotal — but if the pattern holds, it could help researchers understand more about why symptoms of COVID-19 persist in some people, and offer a path to relief.
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No, it happens to all sizes and shapes.
This is anecdotal.
Likely a placebo effect.
What does?
Because there is a theory of chronic Covid infection. It’s one of the proposed theories that you can see patients positive for a long time. It would make sense if there was an insufficient immune response that boosting antibodies by the mRNA platform would make a long hauler feel better.
It’s a plausible theory but needs to be followed. Of course this is why science evolves instead of getting married to a single paradigm.
This is how science evolves.
This should NOT be posted in the Breaking News sidebar.
Exactly.
“People have lingering tiredness, shortness of breath and brain fog.”
I’ve had the same from walking pneumonia, bad colds, and sinus infections.
How did I get over it?
Eventually spring came and I got out more and forced myself to take walks, which lead to me feeling up to walking to or taking a short drive to restaurants and getting good meals there and a spare to take home, which helped my sense of smell and taste buds come back on line, which lead to me feeling like cooking and then doing spring cleaning.
Of the few people I know who got Covid, they received no treatment whatsoever. And they had fevers /taste changes/fatigue. Don’t understand why they don’t give everyone anti virals.
Simone Gold and her group has no credibility. See multiple reports on their leadership and bizarre ideas.
Sorry. The woman is a quack and the group is a fraud. I know you as a disciple or here will provide a slobbering yet incomplete defense which will attempt to deflect from the truth which is this group is a fringe group disavowed by numerous snd a broad spectrum of actual clinicians.
And you will continue to promote flat earth theories of this disease.
Here’s what amazes me. Already down thread the substance of this thread is hijacked by the flat earther antivax deniers who apparently are intellectually married to flawed snd incomplete treatments yet want so desperately to believe that Covid is a complete conspiracy that they are willing to risk the lives of others who may read their ideas and follow the lemmings right over the cliff.
While this is anecdotal data in this article it fits observations that are being seen with long haulers. And makes sense. So what the flat earthworks don’t get is this is how science evolves. See something. Make a hypothesis. Test it. This is encouraging and with proper process coukd be a breakthrough. But we have on this very board people who are so against the scientific method that they will rail at increasingly bizarre statements to prove a pint that we shouldn’t advance beyond incomplete early treatments because of some strange political narcissism they seem to hold.
It’s disgraceful.
Its called rheumatoid arthritis.
Did the scientific method teach you that anyone with a different opinion or skeptical questions is a flat earther narcissist?
She meant long term-COVID, but as a journalism major, she never expected a rudimentary understanding of the English language to benefit her life, in any way.
So a 1/3 saw improvement (smell/taste & fatigue). And not all of those 1/3 had a permanent improvement. For Some it was ‘short lived’ and Symptoms returned.
She's 5'9" and 120lbs.
Would you tell someone who is 25 who needs a double lung transplant after surviving it that it's still their fault?
No but the scientific method taught me to question vigorously on an objective-fashion. And certainly to not become married to an incomplete idea but refine continually my understanding. Convince me that the HCQ and ivermectin flat earthers
Long COVID = post-infection symptoms which last weeks or months. It is a prevalent syndrome of COVID-19 chronic morbidity overlooked by people who only focus on death toll.
The nurse needs a double lung transplant? How is she working?
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