U.K. - The ‘wrecked’ lives of forgotten long Covid sufferers

[Bkk Brian]

9 minutes ago, transam said:

But, not many medical fixes for a mass program can be individually catered for. Just the way it is, especially for a pandemic that was killing millions in short order. 🤔

 

Indeed, so many different and unique ailments to certain groups such as those who are immunocompromised

[transam]

6 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

We are all the same, inside and outside.

Oh dear, so I will have the same cancer as my mate, because we are all the same inside.....

Oh, never mind, difficult for some to understand the basics.....

[owl sees all]

8 minutes ago, transam said:

Oh dear, so I will have the same cancer as my mate, because we are all the same inside.....

Oh, never mind, difficult for some to understand the basics.....

We all need the same. Nutritious food, clean water, fresh air and a loving environment.

 

We are all the same when we pop out and all the same when we leave this beautiful earth.

Edited October 30, 2023 by owl sees all

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[transam]

16 hours ago, owl sees all said:

We all need the same. Nutritious food, clean water, fresh air and a loving environment.

 

We are all the same when we pop out and all the same when we leave this beautiful earth.

Gawd 'elp us.................

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months

October 31, 2023

 

"More than 50% of long-COVID patients failed to improve 1.5 years after their initial diagnosis, according to a new study based on cases seen at a Danish post-COVID clinic, both before and after the Omicron variant period. The study was published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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"At 1.5 year after infection, patients had no clinically meaningful decline in severity of long COVID, and 57% (245/429) of patients failed to improve 1.5 years after infection, with no differences between variants," the authors wrote."

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-regardless-variant-half-long-covid-patients-fail-improve-after-18-months

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Unapproved stem-cell therapies marketed to people with long COVID

October 31, 2023

 

"New research has identified 38 direct-to-consumer businesses marketing stem-cell treatments and exosome therapies for COVID-19 infections and, especially, long COVID, despite lacking approval by US Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory body in the United States.

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Twenty-four of the 60 clinics (40%) listed on websites of the identified businesses were in the United States, 22 (37%) were in Mexico, four (7%) were in Ukraine, and two (3%) were in the Cayman Islands.    Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates had one clinic each (around 2% per country).

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In a conclusion on the study, the authors wrote that, until evidence of efficacy is studied and approved by regulatory bodies, vulnerable patients will be exploited by online businesses."

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/unapproved-stem-cell-therapies-marketed-people-long-covid

 

[thaicurious]

On 10/29/2023 at 8:47 AM, BenStark said:

Nobody can prove that if you catch covid after you had the vaccine, that you would have died if you didn't have the vaccine.

Also without a time machine, you can't say that someone who got across the street safely wouldn't have gotten hit hadn't he first looked both ways before stepping out into traffic.

 

But we can review covid caused mortality rates of vaccinated vs not vaxxed and extrapolate probabilities of what might or might not happen with or without a time machine. This is not complicated.

 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status

 

As to the topic Long Covid, this is why I'll continue to social distance and mask indoors in public until I see efficacy numbers of next gen mucosal vaccines. I lost two dear friends pre-vaccinations. Both in my life since I was a little kid. And a friend of ours was a nurse through all of this in a big city hospital. I'd work to make her laugh and then get off the phone and just cry. Her stories were heartbreaking, all the deaths, all the pain. I've got another friend from 4th or 5th grade who's refused to mask or vax and he's a mess. Last we spoke a few months back I absolutely noticed what I suspected was long covid brain fog, polite for dementia. I didn't say anything until he brought it up in conversation that he's noticed he's been having trouble thinking. I kind of knew the answer but asked anyway: "have you been vaxxing and masking?" So he acts dumb because he knows how much I love that. So I said covid, have you caught covid. He says "oh, that virus, yeah a few times." I begged him to mask and vax. He said "I'm not putting that in me". I said "but that's what's destroying your brain, the covid you're putting in you." But he just shrugged it off with a que sera sera. It's so sad.

Edited October 31, 2023 by thaicurious
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