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| Many long-haul COVID patients improve after vaccination, surprising experts |
| 2021-06-08 |
| [HotAir] It’s a phenomenon that has surprised — and elated — medical experts: A growing number of COVID-19 “long-haulers,” those with lingering long-term symptoms linked to the virus, are reporting sudden improvement after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Initial research has found that anywhere from 30% to 40% of these patients describe some symptom relief post-vaccination, the latest medical mystery posed by the new virus. It’s still unclear why some coronavirus survivors don’t seem to get better weeks or even months after infection. Now scientists and physicians are trying to understand why many of these patients seem to feel better after getting vaccinated, improvements that range from a mild decline in symptoms to a life-changing return to their pre-COVID-19 health. Theories include the possibility that the vaccine might be stopping a harmful immune response in long-haulers or that the shot could be resetting their immune systems. Some clinicians and scientists have theorized that long-haulers suffer from residual amounts of virus remaining in their bodies, and vaccination might help their immune systems fight off what’s left over. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Long Covid, like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, is a syndrome whose cause(s) and etiology are not understood. So it’s reasonable that out of this black box some would be impacted by a thing for no apparent reason, while others equally inexplicably are not. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-08 23:42 |
| #6 Equally puzzling is why the shots seem to help some long-haul patients recuperate while others report no symptom improvement after getting immunized. “We don’t have a lot else to offer people with long-COVID,” said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease physician at Columbia University in New York. “So the thing we encourage across the board is get those vaccine doses, see if it makes a difference.” And after clicking through Hot Air is Conservative News, the rest is positive sayings Chicago Tribune pulls from Facebook. I'd sooner trust a truck stop bathroom wall, and the floor to be clean enough to set my items down on. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-08 16:06 |
| #5 ..when they sort out Placebo Effect and "Irreproducible Results" ? |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-06-08 14:51 |
| #4 ^Really Clem, universities are full of bandwagon jumpers with mind-shattering discoveries. In fact, I'm surprised every time I read a good paper. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 14:10 |
| #3 Sometimes I wonder.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-06-08 13:48 |
| #2 HIV patient had COVID for over 7 months, infection mutated over 30 times |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-08 11:06 |