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My daughter in law is fighting what seems to be long covid. She has been through so much and really needs to be able to travel to be with my wife and me this weekend in Florida. She and the rest of our family have been looking forward to this visit as a way to ease the pain of other problems.

So-called long COVID can be listed as a cause of death even if a deceased person had not tested positive for COVID-19 for months or even years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a new update. “When completing the death certificate, certifiers should carefully review and consider the decedent’s medical history and records, laboratory test results, and autopsy report, if one is available. For decedents who had a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and were diagnosed with a post-COVID-19 condition, the certifier may consider the possibility that the death was due to long-term complications of COVID-19, even...

For those who have had COVID-19 or who have been vaccinated against it, the World Council for Health (WCH) has issued a guideline for “spike protein detox” to eliminate the risk of developing long-term effects from the spike proteins. The World Council for Health is a non-profit initiative for the people, that is informed and funded by the people. “The World Council for Health brings to the table the world’s best health advocates, doctors, innovators, and activists fighting to achieve good health for all. We work collaboratively with 170+ organizations in 40 countries to advance public health knowledge and sensemaking....

Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people's health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We found that a staggering 90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19. ...women have twice the risk of men and four times the risk of children... We analyzed data from 54 studies reporting on over 1 million people from 22 countries who had experienced symptoms of COVID-19.... ...Among all people...

SARS-CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19 — can get into the tissues of the brain and other non-respiratory sites, autopsies have revealed. Prior to the work, infectious disease specialist Dr Daniel Chertow of the US National Institutes of Health said, “the thinking in the field was that SARS-CoV-2 was predominantly a respiratory virus". The researchers are now moving to expand their study, with the hope of exploring the relationship between widely infected tissues and long COVID. In their study, Dr Chertow and his colleagues analysed tissue samples from the autopsies of 44 people who died with COVID-19 and had...

Masking and social distancing should be encouraged or even mandated once more in public in order to protect people from COVID-19 and from the possibility of suffering from "Long COVID," according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, commissioned by HHS and produced by research agency Coforma, calls for a broad range of government policies to help people who continue to deal with the lingering effects of COVID. Those policies include an awareness campaign, funding for long COVID support groups, financial support for students and workers, and new health benefits for COVID victims....

People with long Covid suffer physical alterations to their brain, a study has shown. MRIs of patients still suffering with symptoms six months after the initial infection show clusters in parts of the brain linked to fatigue, headaches and cognition. These include areas in the frontal lobe and the brain stem. The Indian researchers behind the study say it is the first to show that Covid causes physical changes to the brain which last months. Other studies have found that the virus can also cause changes in other organs such as the heart and lungs. Long Covid is not a...

A recent preprint study found that Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid may be effective in reducing the risk of developing long COVID in patients recovering from coronavirus infections. The study, funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), looked through the VA’s health care databases and identified individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 between March and June 2022. Overall, 56,340 participants were included in the study, among whom 9,217 were given Paxlovid within five days of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, while the remaining 47,123 did not receive any form of COVID-19 antiviral or antibody treatment in the 30 days after their...

Good evening fellow Freepers. I wanted to make this post to see if anyone else out there, who got infected with Covid-19, has experienced Post-COVID-19 Fatigue Syndrome (PCFS). Basically, I've been experiencing fatigue, dizziness, vertigo, nausea, and like symptoms since Feb when I was hospitalized for Covid-19 and pneumonia. My doctor's office said it's just allergies but they are big time pharma endorsers and heed whatever the medical establishment tells them. Hence, I'm also looking for a new doctor (central Indiana if anyone knows of a good doctor!). I have been researching this online but we all know how search...

a drug used to treat addiction could be what millions of long Covid sufferers around the world need to finally address their symptoms. Naltrexone is a generic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat both alcohol and opioid addicts. But in small trials it has been able to relieve long Covid patients of lingering ailments like brain fog and fatigue that last months after the initial infection. The drug - sold under the brand name Revia - is now being touted as a crucial piece of the puzzle of long Covid that has stumped experts for over...

Psychological distress, like anxiety and depression, increases people’s chance of experiencing long COVID, a new study from researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows. The increased risk of long COVID came independently of other risk factors like a history of smoking or asthma. However, psychological distress led to a larger increased risk of long COVID than many physical health risk factors. [R]esearchers determined that people with distress before a COVID-19 infection had a 32-46% increased risk of long COVID. People with probable anxiety had a 42% increased risk and those with probable depression had a 32%...

When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease would all disappear upon recovery among the nearly 99% who survived the initial infection. Vaccinations by late 2020 were promised to end the pandemic for good. But they did not. New mutant strains, while more infectious, were said to be less lethal, thus supposedly resulting in spreading natural immunity while...

Long COVID may be one of many reasons why in a recession, labor paradoxically still remains scarce. When the original strain of COVID-19 arrived in spring 2020, a pandemic soon swept the country. By far most survived COVID. But hundreds of thousands did not. American deaths now number well over 1 million. Amid the tragedy, there initially was some hope that the pernicious effects of the disease would all disappear upon recovery among the nearly 99 percent who survived the initial infection. Vaccinations by late 2020 were promised to end the pandemic for good. But they did not. New mutant...

"An Unexpected Virus Culprit (Epstein-Barr Virus) is Found in Long-COVID. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a bigger threat than we thought, and we still don’t know how to treat it. EBV normally pops up during times of stress and lowered immunity (stress is one of many factors that lower immunity)."

Most people infected by the omicron variant of COVID-19 were not aware they had it, according to a new study. “More than one in every two people who were infected with omicron didn’t know they had it,” the study’s first author and an investigator at Cedars-Sinai Sandy Y. Joung said in a media release. “Awareness will be key for allowing us to move beyond this pandemic.” Investigators conducting a study examining COVID-19 and the effect of vaccines identified nearly 2,500 blood samples from patients just before and after the start of omicron’s surge – identifying 210 people who likely had...

A lingering disorder that can last for months or years is affecting an increasing proportion of the workforce. The symptoms that contribute to Long COVID could be a result of pandemic measures and masking in particular. Increased exposure to microplastics, nanoparticles, chemicals in masks, and nasopharyngeal tests parallel many of the symptoms that define Long COVID. Surveys among thousands of people suggest 7 percent to 30 percent of people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus experienced one or more symptoms for a period longer than 12 weeks. Some people who got COVID-19 early in the pandemic still haven’t recovered. The...

Hair loss was significantly associated as a symptom of Long Covid, one of 62 symptoms revealed in the latest research.

We've entered year three of the pandemic, and experts still know very little about long Covid, including how to cure its symptoms. On July 20th and July 21st, the Global Virus Network hosted the first-ever conference devoted solely to the science of long Covid. There, scientists spoke openly about what is known about the mysterious condition and the questions that remain. For example, researchers are still searching for answers to two key questions: * How do we define long Covid? * Will Covid-19 medication like Paxlovid treat long Covid symptoms as well? At this stage, even providing an estimate of...

More than two years after Georgia Linders first got sick with COVID, her heart still races at random times. She's often exhausted. She can't digest certain foods. Most days, she runs a fever, and when her temperature gets up past a certain point, her brain feels like goo, she says. These are commonly reported symptoms of long COVID. Linders really noticed problems with her brain when she returned to work in the spring and summer of 2020. Her job required her to be on phone calls all day, coordinating with health clinics that service the military. It was a lot...

Research uncovered an increased risk of pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lung) up to six months after covid-19 infection, deep vein thrombosis (a blood clot in the leg) up to three months, and a bleeding event up to two months. The study from Sweden was published by The BMJ. According to the findings, there is also a higher risk of events in patients with underlying conditions (comorbidities), patients with more severe covid-19, and during the first pandemic wave compared with the second and third waves. These results support measures to prevent thrombotic events (thromboprophylaxis), especially for high-risk patients,...