Re:NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
by beagle3 on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:28AM
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Do you have reason to believe that Lyme is not a real disease, despite a known bacteria and very distinct symptoms including red “target” marks? Or are you just referring to “long Lyme” (which is not well characterized, but has extremely high correlation with a prior real Lyme diagnosis?)
Re:NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
by bsder on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:36AM
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I fully believe that "Lyme disease" certainly exists.
I also believe that "Lyme disease" became a medical/medical insurance bucket for "We don't know what's wrong with you, and you're annoying enough that we can't just ignore you, but we don't want to spend any more time or money on you figuring out what is really wrong."
This will also flag long-term effects from other virii, as well.
One thing that Covid drove home is: "Infection with a virus can do a LOT of extra damage that we don't track very well."
There are lot of people who get diagnosed with "Lyme" (aka the modern equivalent to "hysteria" in many ways) who may very well just be "You had a bad cold/flu/other virus and your body took a lot of damage and now its going to take quite a while to clean up."
Modern medicine is amazing, but it has a gigantic blind spot around chronic conditions.