Long COVID

       

“Leaky” Brain

“Leaky” Brain

By now, virtually everyone knows many people who have had COVID.

The Wall Street Journal published a news article on January 5, “Why It Feels Like Everyone You Know Is Getting COVID-19,” which contained several worrisome observations.

I described the vaccine approval process, noting that the FDA evaluates the safety and efficacy while the CDC recommends the appropriate recipients.

Long COVID joins other “post-viral” syndromes, ill-characterized by fatigue, a brain fog, and other symptoms perhaps best described as “my get up and go, got up and went.” Hypothetical physiologic “causes” include a persisting cryptic “viral reser

     

     

The number of deaths from COVID-19 is way down from its peak and pandemic-related restrictions and mandates have virtually disappeared, but there are hints we are in for a late summer surge in infections.