Category: long covid
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The CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is a respiratory bug, right? They say we catch it, not from surfaces or food, like we do norovirus, but from airborne exposure—we breathe it in. That of course, means that it causes respiratory problems. Makes sense, right? Well, Sarah Carter, 36, from San Mateo, CA, caught the virus…
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Who are those people susceptible to long COVID? It also seems that vaccination protects a bit against long COVID, but not as much as previously thought. But, this observation complicates things. The vaccine is designed to stimulate an immune response without the risk attendant to an infection. Why doesn’t this immune response cause long COVID…
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In the US, nearly six times more kids and teens died from COVID in one year than did from the flu, according to a new analysis of pediatric mortality data.
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Surviving COVID-19 is one thing, recovering is another.
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Researchers have pretty well cataloged the unusual range of long COVID’s neurological symptoms and now are at the very early stages of understanding their causes and how to treat the problems.
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About the only thing we can say with any certitude at this time is that long COVID exists but is not easy to describe. The only constant between different long COVID patients with different symptoms is that the conditions is a collection of varied symptoms that persist long after the acute disease subsides
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