Long COVID

Let’s get the caveats out of the way. The data is from Chinese patients early in the pandemic, January to May 2020. China is not known to be forthcoming with data, and there is great suspicion regarding the numbers they do release.

A recent study in JAMA Network Open sough

Of course, the downside with relying on naturally acquired immunity (and forgoing vaccination) – is that you must first get COVID. But now that there’s Paxlovid, who cares? Right?

Increasing concerns about long-haul COVID (LHC) have appeared in the popular press but less frequently in the medical literature. The PubMed database lists 32,922 review papers on COVID-19 but only 196 on LHC.

Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time secretary of defense (Gerald Ford and George W.

A bit of background

  “Current trends indicate that long-haul COVID is our next public health disaster in the making” What is long-haul COVID?

COVID-19 has already broken all the rules.

“The pandemic today is almost unrecognizably different. In the United States, an acute, terrifying catastrophe has given way to the monotony of lowered expectations. There are no makeshift morgues in the streets.