Pathological sequelae of long-haul COVID

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Saurabh Mehandru & Miriam Merad, Nature Immunology volume 23, pages194–202 ( Abstract The world continues to contend with successive waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), fueled by the emergence of viral variants. At the same time, persistent, prolonged and often debilitating sequelae are increasingly recognized in convalescent individuals, named ‘post-COVID-19 syndrome’ or ‘long-haul COVID’. Clinical symptomatology includes fatigue, malaise, dyspnea, defects […]

Supreme Court Turns Away COVID-19 Vaccine Appeals

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TUESDAY, JUN 25, 2024 – 11:00 PM, Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times U.S. Supreme Court justices on June 24 rejected appeals brought over COVID-19 vaccines by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate running for president. The nation’s top court rejected an appeal seeking […]

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

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May 3, 2024 Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts. She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until […]

Comparison of Transient and Persistent Adverse Events After COVID-19 Vaccination: A Retrospective Analysis

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Haruka Hikichi • Yuki Fujioka • Akiko Saga • Ken Watanabe • Ryo Hasegawa • Yuki Moritoki • Shigeharu Ueki, Published: June 28, 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.63410  Abstract Objective: Most reported adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination have been transient. However, persistent adverse events may occur with some frequency. This study aimed to analyze patient background characteristics and trends, with a focus on whether adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination were transient […]

Human SARS-CoV-2 challenge uncovers local and systemic response dynamics

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Rik G. H. Lindeboom, Kaylee B. Worlock, Lisa M. Dratva, et. al.Nature (2024) Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global health threat, yet our understanding of the dynamics of early cellular responses to this disease remains limited1. Here in our SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study, we used single-cell multi-omics profiling of nasopharyngeal swabs and blood to temporally resolve abortive, […]

Safety and efficacy of low dose naltrexone in a long covid cohort; an interventional pre-post study.

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O’Kelly B 1,2, Vidal L 2, McHugh T 2, et. al. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 03 Jul 2022, 24:100485, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100485 PMID: 35814187 PMCID: PMC9250701 Abstract  Background Up to 37.7% of patients experience symptoms beyond 12 weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2. To date care for people with long covid has centred around multidisciplinary rehabilitation, self care and self pacing. No pharmacotherapy has been […]

POST-ACUTE SEQUELAE OF COVID-19: CHARACTERIZATION, COMORBIDITIES, AND BIOMARKERS IN A DIVERSE COHORT

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Emily Struttmann, Anish Shah, Matthew Moreida, et. al. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.20.24308901 Abstract Introduction Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is causing a silent pandemic in the U.S. Gulf South, a part of flyover U.S. where patients are quietly withdrawing from the workforce and largely disconnected from the advocacy resources growing in more affluent regions[1]. To date, there is no clinical test to diagnose PASC […]

Long COVID-19 is linked to chronic pain conditions

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Therapies for pain conditions like fibromyalgia provide clues for helping those with long COVID Many patients continue to struggle in the wake of the pandemic as they grapple with ongoing symptoms triggered by COVID-19 infection, a condition commonly known as long COVID. However, the onset of symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, headache, and other […]

Supreme Court Turns Away COVID-19 Vaccine Appeals

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TUESDAY, JUN 25, 2024 – Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times  U.S. Supreme Court justices on June 24 rejected appeals brought over COVID-19 vaccines by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate running for president. The nation’s top court rejected an appeal seeking to overturn […]

Patients with neurological disease are likelier to die after COVID, finds study

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by Geoff McMaster, University of Alberta People with neurological disease have a greater chance of death after contracting COVID-19, according to a new University of Alberta study. The research also confirms a higher risk of developing new neurological disorders after COVID infection. “For those who have neurological diseases—if you have Parkinson’s, if you have dementia, if you […]