Parosmia and COVID: How Long Changes in Smell Last, Plus Treatment Options


Christine Giordano, MD | Reviewed by Angela Dunn, MD, MPH, August 29, 2023 GoodRX Key takeaways: For some people, morning coffee smells like onions or trash. And the smell of loved ones makes them want to gag day after day. This is parosmia — a change or distortion of normal smell. And it’s one of the types of […]

Brain Injuries After COVID Vaccination


Colleen Huber    April 12, 2023 HEALTH VIEWPOINTS, There are back door routes to the brain. COVID vaccine developers have traversed a path through those doors. And they knew they had entered the brain by November 2020, before the vaccine rollout. We have 86 billion neurons in the human brain, and each of those connects with […]

Incidence of New-Onset Hypertension Post–COVID-19: Comparison With Influenza


Vincent Zhang, Molly Fisher,Wei Hou,Lili Zhang and Tim Q. Duong    Aug 2023 https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.21174 Hypertension. 2023;0 Abstract BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2 may trigger new-onset persistent hypertension. This study investigated the incidence and risk factors associated with new-onset persistent hypertension during COVID-19 hospitalization and at ≈6-month follow-up compared with influenza. METHODS: This retrospective observational study was conducted in a major academic […]

Autonomic dysfunction in ‘long COVID’: rationale, physiology and management strategies


Melanie Dani,  Andreas Dirksen, Patricia Taraborrelli,  Miriam Torocastro, Dimitrios Panagopoulos, Richard Sutton, and Phang Boon Lim Clin Med (Lond). 2021 Jan; 21(1): e63–e67.  doi: 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0896 PMCID: PMC7850225 PMID: 33243837 ABSTRACT The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented morbidity, mortality and global disruption. Following the initial surge of infections, focus shifted to managing the longer-term sequelae of illness in survivors. ‘Post-acute COVID’ (known colloquially as ‘long COVID’) is […]

CDC confirms COVID-19 vaccine prevents death in only 1 out of 1 million


Sanchari Ghosh August 23, 2023 A common question surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines since its inception has been about its capability to prevent hospitalization and death. In all these years, there has been no official confirmation about the same, but recently the CDC put forward some data that claims that “per million doses in 12-17-year-olds over 6 […]

Neurological manifestations of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19: which liquid biomarker should we use?


Dominique Comeau1† Mykella Martin2† Gilles A. Robichaud3,4,5 Ludivine Chamard-Witkowski2,6*1Dr. Georges-L. Long COVID syndrome, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), is characterized by persistent symptoms lasting 3–12 weeks post SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients suffering from PASC can display a myriad of symptoms that greatly diminish quality of life, the most frequent being neuropsychiatric. Thus, there is an eminent need […]

Cutting Edge: Circulating Exosomes with COVID Spike Protein Are Induced by BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) Vaccination prior to Development of Antibodies: A Novel Mechanism for Immune Activation by mRNA Vaccines 


Sandhya Bansal; Sudhir Perincheri; Timothy Fleming; Christin Poulson;Brian Tiffany;Ross M. Bremner; Thalachallour Mohanakumar  J Immunol (2021) 207 (10): 2405–2410.https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2100637 Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. mRNA vaccines directed at the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein resulted in development of Abs and protective immunity. To determine the mechanism, we analyzed the kinetics […]

SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccine sequences circulate in blood up to 28 days after COVID-19 vaccination


Jose Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Uffe Vest Schneider, Sarah Mollerup, Thomas Daell Leineweber, Nina Weis, Jens Bukh, Martin Schou Pedersen, Henrik Westh, January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/apm.13294 Abstract In Denmark, vaccination against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been with the Pfizer-BioNTech (BTN162b2) or the Moderna (mRNA-1273) mRNA vaccines. Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection followed in our clinic received […]

How COVID Vaccine Could Harm Your Gut, Leading To Brain Fog And Autoimmune Disease


OCT 17, 2023 – Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times Diarrhea, constipation, and bloating are common problems that plague two-thirds of Americans. While gut problems are often written off as caused by poor diet and lifestyle habits, they may also be a sign of damage from infections such as COVID-19 and from COVID […]

Spectrum of Fibrotic Lung Diseases


Marlies Wijsenbeek, M.D., and Vincent Cottin, M.D.  New England Journal of Medicine 2023 Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases encompass a large number of conditions, with a wide range of causes, clinical manifestations, and imaging and pathological features, as well as variable outcomes. Despite the intrinsic heterogeneity of this group of diseases, in most of them, the […]