A woman who had COVID for a long time said her symptoms were gone 36 hours after she received her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The Washington Post.
Arianna Eisenberg, 34, said she experienced muscle aches, insomnia, fatigue and brain fog for eight months after becoming ill. These symptoms are typical of what has become known as ‘long COVID’.
But 36 hours after receiving a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, her symptoms were gone. Post report.
Eisenberg’s story is one of several that describe a similar effect.
The Philadelphia investigator and the Huffington Post also reported on people for whom long-term COVID symptoms improved after vaccination.
Daniel Griffith, a clinician and researcher at Infectious Diseases at Columbia University, told The Verge on March 2 that about a third of his long-term COVID patients reported feeling better after the vaccination.
In a YouTube video, Gez Medinger, a science journalist reporting on long COVID, conducted a survey among 473 long-distance transportation among support groups on Facebook, reports The Verge, about a third of whom see their symptoms improve after vaccination.
One small study from the British University of Bristol, which was not peer-reviewed, looked at giving vaccinations to people with long COVID-19 symptoms, according to the Washington Post report.
The scientists gave the vaccine to 44 COVID long-rangers and compared their response to a group of long-term carriers who did not receive the vaccine.
They reported that those who received the vaccine had a “small overall improvement in long-term COVID symptoms”.
However, the authors said that this may be the placebo effect.
This is just one of a series of enigmatic reports on long COVID.
On March 3, Kaiser Health News reported that a 15-year-old dancer developed COPD, a disease commonly found in older people, after contracting COVID-19 last year.
As reported by Aria Bendix of Insider, scientists also cannot explain why most people who develop COVID for a long time are women, although some scientists think it may be because women tend to have stronger immune responses than men.
Recovery clinics for long COVID patients are opening, reports Sophia Ankel of Insider.
But the condition is still not well understood. The US National Institutes of Health has given more than US $ 1 ($ 1) billion to investigate long COVID.
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