In my experience of treating thousands of patients over two decades, people can be very forgiving if you are honest with them. If public-health officials want to regain the public trust, they shoul…
published Monday in the medical journal BMJ found that long COVID is virtually indistinguishable from long-haul symptoms after other infections. In other words, the authors suggest long COVID may not be unique from any other respiratory-illness recovery.What’s clear is public-health officials have massively exaggerated long COVID to scare low-risk Americans, including healthy children.
While there are certainly unique hallmark sequela of COVID like loss of smell , new research is showing that any respiratory infection, like flu and respiratory-syncytial virus, can similarly knock you down for a while.Diagnosing many of these cases as long COVID represents the medicalization of ordinary life.
To date, the return on investment has been nothing for the patients with long COVID. Most of the money has gone to MRI centers, lab testing companies and hospitals that set up long-COVID clinics. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week continued to incorrectly present the risks of myocarditis and downplayed them, citing its own flawed studies.NIH and CDC also haven’t had any interest in funding research on natural immunity, boosters in children or even vitamin D, which was discovered earlier this year to lower COVID mortality — a study that tragically came two years too late.
Given the broad reach of population immunity to COVID today and the less severe nature of the illness, long COVID is less common and less severe than it was in the past.
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