Granted although I was a practicing physician for many years, in no way, shape, or form do I profess to have expertise in infectious diseases. Likewise, I am certainly not an ‘anti-vaccer,’ having gotten flu-shots every year for close to fifty-five years including this year, and similarly having gotten the initial Covid vaccinations (the first two plus one booster).
Today I read an interesting article from The Hill, entitled:
“Is it long COVID or long vax? Does the government want to know?”
The gist of this article is that while there certainly appears to be what is called, “Long Covid,” a large portion of patients with this group of symptoms relate the onset to the Covid vaccine.
From the article (The Hill, 3/6/24) one of the two authors states:
“In two years, the practice has evaluated and treated over 1,000 individuals. Approximately 70 percent of these patients said their reported symptoms occurred in the minutes, hours, days and weeks after COVID vaccination, as opposed to after COVID infection. This could be tied to a new condition that’s flown under the radar until recently.
“This syndrome, dubbed “long vax,” is just starting to make its way into the medical literature. Dr. Harlan Krumholz at the Yale School of Medicine published a survey of 241 patients who described post-COVID vaccination symptoms of exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, numbness, brain fog and neuropathy, a nervous system disorder that can cause pain, tingling sensations, numbness or weakness. Long COVID patients were excluded from the study, which is now undergoing peer review.”
As part of my Hippocratic Oath, I occasionally feel somewhat obligated to report on pertinent medical issues that are unlikely to be mentioned in the Main Stream Media (MSM). Dollars-to-Donuts because this new info goes against what the MSM has been lecturing to us about for the last few years, the issue of “long vax” will not make it to WaPo, the NYT, USA Today, etc. in the foreseeable future!
3/9/24