A woman who had COVID for a long time said that her symptoms disappeared 36 hours after receiving the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to Washington Post.
Arianna Eisenberg, 34, said she suffered from muscle aches, insomnia, fatigue and brain fog for eight months after falling ill. These symptoms are typical of what has become known as “long COVID”.
But 36 hours after receiving a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, her symptoms have disappeared. Post reported.
Eisenberg’s story is one of several that describe a similar effect.
Philadelphia Inquirer and the Huffington Post also reported on people for whom prolonged COVID symptoms improved after vaccination.
Daniel Griffith, an infectious disease clinician and researcher at Columbia University, told The Verge on March 2 that about a third of his COVID patients reported feeling better after the vaccine.
In a YouTube video, Gez Medinger, a science journalist who reports on long-term COVID, surveyed 473 long-haul carriers among Facebook support groups, The Verge reported, including one-third saw their symptoms improve after vaccination.
A small study by the University of Bristol in the UK, which was not analyzed by colleagues, looked at the administration of vaccines to people with long-term symptoms of COVID-19, according to Washington Post report.
The scientists administered the vaccine to 44 COVID long carriers and compared their reaction with a group of long carriers who did not receive the vaccine.
They reported that those who received the vaccine had a “small overall improvement in long-term COVID symptoms.”
However, the authors said this could be reduced to the placebo effect.
This is just one of a series of puzzling reports about long COVID.
On March 3, Kaiser Health News reported that a 15-year-old dancer developed COPD, a disease commonly seen in the elderly after contracting COVID-19 last summer.
As Aria Bendix from Insider reported, scientists also can’t explain why most people who develop long COVID are women, although some scientists believe it may be because women tend to give answers. immune stronger than men.
Recovery clinics have been opened for patients with long COVID, Sophia Ankel of Insider reported.
But the condition is not yet well understood. The US National Institutes of Health has been awarded more than $ 1 billion by Congress to investigate long-term COVID.
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