I just had a discussion with my pharmacist about the coronavirus vaccines. I have concerns about the cost to benefit of the vaccines and the possibility of vaccine contamination that might injure patients.
It has been discovered that asian countries have a very low covid death rate of around...
Wondering if this Isreali covid drug would be beneficial to those with ME/CFS. Sounds like it balances the immune issues caused by the infection. Given Prusty's (and others) research on infectious diseases causing ME/CFS symptoms, perhaps it might be worth looking into.
I don't know if this...
A lot of people are interested in coronavirus-19 information so here's a story about research showing that after infection with covid susceptible people (10%-15% of the population) develop autoimmune disease from autoantibodies...
Hey everyone,
I want to know if some of you had a run with covid-19 and ended up with post-covid 19 syndrome (which I really think is CFS).
I want to know if you have seen any recovery naturally over the months. I can work only for 3 hours a day before I get fatigued now and I've had covid-19...
Long Covid: A summary of discussions on Phoenix Rising
So remember back in January when we were all wondering if the novel coronavirus might result in an ME/CFS-like condition? Well, I thought I would start a thread to collect together all the discussions that might be relevant to "Long...
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/13/health/long-haul-covid-fatigue-breathing-wellness/index.html
A good piece written by Ryan Prior, an ME patient who works for CNN:
Excerpt:
For those of you unfamiliar with STAT, it's a website geared towards the medical community.
They just published a piece by David Tuller, the academic who wrote the PACE expose:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/11/persistent-symptoms-after-covid19-hard-to-study/
Excerpt:
At first I was being extra careful to take precautions due to being immunocompromised by Rituximab, but in the past few weeks I've become more and more alarmed by reports of long-term coronavirus consequences. The extreme fatigue and cognitive decline being suffered by some COVID "long-haulers"...
This article on the New York Times explains how a pulse oximeter is an important tool for monitoring the health of covid patients, and even for people who didn't realize they were infected: The infection that's silently killing Coronavirus patients.
Here are some extracts from the article. I've...
the temperature, the "weather", clouds, rain, return to the soil and right into our freshwater supplies ... everything can spread and contribute to virus survival - but also destroy it...
makes wonder, if "the normal social interaction" is even the least successful vehicle for a virus...