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janice shell

05/13/21 4:13 PM

#1658 RE: Garden Rose #1626

I did hear of long Covid months ago.

Only once? That's funny. It's discussed frequently, and has been for more than a year.

from what I've read, those with Covid symptoms were not treated. Nothing in your article indicates treatment. Those long termers were under the care of the Vaccine brigade that forbade them any early treatment...

WTF?? Obviously you haven't read nearly enough, though I suppose there isn't a lot of material about it at the conspiracy and anti-vaxxer sites. Many of the victims have, however, been interviewed. It has nothing to do with encouragement to be vaccinated. Long COVID was first reported more than a year ago, when vaccines weren't available except for trial participants.

Can you show me any record of treatment other than sitting at home waiting for respiration to decline???

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/23/861577391/long-term-symptoms-of-covid-19

Back in the spring of 2020, there were no treatments; doctors were scrambling to find enough ventilators. That happens with every new disease. By October, when Trump came down with COVID, there were a number of possibilities. The most effective were and are Regeneron's monoclonal antibody product, Remdesivir, and dexamethasone.

Not all of those were available a year ago, except for dexamethasone, a common steroid. At the time, they wouldn't have given Remdesivir to patients who didn't seem particularly ill, because it was in short supply. Same for the Regeneron product.

Recently, I'm seeing TV commercials suggesting that anyone who's diagnosed with COVID and hasn't been sent to the hospital should call his or her doctor and ask about monoclonal antibodies. I don't know who sponsors the ads; I'll take a closer look next time. Evidently somebody's ramped up production.