The feature person's "long Covid" sounds like something unrelated that came up in near timing to Covid and now Covid is being blamed. I expect so see a lot of this in the future in the place of "chronic fatigue" "Lyme disease" etc. Not to say that those don't exist, just that there are a lot of people who don't generally feel good with unexplainable symptoms that are attributed to unprovable diseases.Originally Posted by peterb
This sounds weird to me but I don't know anywhere near enough to comment. It would be great if our medical guys could have a look at this article: Drugs that mimic effects of cigarette smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2's ability to enter cells
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Trials in progress for ritonavir, a pill treatment for patients with covid who do not need to be hospitalized.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04960202
This is a nearly useless bit of info but maybe people have friends or family in parts of the world where western vaccines aren't available.
Sample size of one 75 year old man, IgG titers one month after full Pfizer deal are exactly the same as they were one month after Sputnik that he got in April.
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Long COVID is definitely a thing. Gotta pay attention to details though. Here I think it is persistence of symptoms greater than 30 days following resolution of acute disease. European definition is something like 120 days. We'll have more questions than answers for years, and the government will throw a good bit of money at it.
I need to read more about metabolism, but there's only so much time. Immune activation forces a lot of metabolic changes in the responding cells. Sometimes I think they don't get back to the correct homeostasis following resolution of the immune response, and then funk like this happens.
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I got COVID for my 30th birthday and ever since, I've been trying to figure out if my issue of not remembering stuff as well as I did before is because I'm now past 30 or because of post COVID fatigue lol
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Past 30? Oh, child - just wait…
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Yeah, not to be the bearer of bad news, but…
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Anecdote =/= data, but I've got a family member , retirement age male, who contracted a pretty early case here in NYC. His previously not great memory went totally bye bye. Like a sieve now.
Mentioned before talking to an Bosnian vet who got it and had mental fog for months. Still has some of it. Maybe he forgot to take his dewormer? I am a touch concerned about the seemingly political wars between CDC and FDA about who is the best scientist. I'm of the view of trying to get ahead of the curve with boosters, not to wait for a surprise that we do need them. If the shots don't hurt you, take the precaution.
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