A woman who had COVID for a long time said her symptoms had disappeared 36 hours after receiving her second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to The Washington Post.
Arianna Eisenberg, 34, said she experienced muscle aches, insomnia, fatigue and brain fog for eight months after she became ill. These symptoms are typical of what has become known as the “long covetus.”
But 36 hours after receiving a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, his symptoms had disappeared. Publication reported.
Eisenberg’s story is one of several that describes a similar effect.
He Philadelphia Inquirer and the Huffington Post also reported on people for whom COVID symptoms for a long time improved after vaccination.
Daniel Griffith, an infectious disease clinician and researcher at Columbia University, told The Verge on March 2 that about a third of his long-term patients with COVID reported feeling better after the vaccine.
In a YouTube video, Gez Medinger, a science journalist who reports on long COVID, surveyed 473 long-term carriers among Facebook support groups, The Verge reported, about a third of whom saw improvement their symptoms after vaccination.
A small study from the University of Bristol in the UK, which has not been peer-reviewed, examined the possibility of giving vaccines to people with long-term symptoms of COVID-19, according to Washington Post report.
The scientists administered the vaccine to 44 long-haul COVID carriers and compared their reaction with a group of long-haul carriers who did not receive the vaccine.
They reported that those who had received the vaccine had a “small overall improvement in the long-term symptoms of COVID.”
However, the authors said this could be derived from the placebo effect.
This is just one of the puzzling reports surrounding the long COVID.
On March 3, Kaiser Health News reported that a 15-year-old dancer developed COPD, a disease commonly seen in the elderly, after contracting COVID-19 last summer.
According to Insider’s Aria Bendix, scientists also can’t explain why most people who develop long-term COVID are women, although some scientists think it could be because women tend to get stronger immune responses than men. .
Recovery clinics have been opened for long-term patients with COVID, Sophia Ankel of Insider reported.
But the condition is still not well understood. Congress has received more than $ 1 billion from U.S. Institutes of Health to investigate the long COVID.
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