Mysterious Ailment, Mysterious Relief: Vaccines Help Some Covid Long Haulers
Scientists who study the post-illness syndrome are taking a close look at patients' reports of this unexpected benefit of the vaccine.
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Scientists who study the post-illness syndrome are taking a close look at patients' reports of this unexpected benefit of the vaccine.
Despite a negative covid test, people could have been infected with the coronavirus anyway. And some of them might face lingering health issues.
Early in the pandemic, many patients couldn鈥檛 be tested. The lack of a covid diagnosis complicates disability insurance for those whose illness continues.
The staff at L.A. County鈥檚 public rehabilitation hospital is helping mostly Latino, low-income patients recover the basic functions of daily life robbed from them during weeks or months of critical covid illness.
Both conditions are linked to viral infections in ways that are poorly understood. But the outpouring of sympathy 鈥 and research dollars 鈥 produced by 鈥渓ong covid鈥 has given hope to those who struggled in the past to gain sympathy for their symptoms.
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