Long COVID: What is it and why is it still a mystery? | 5 Things



In the beginning, people suffering from what is now called long COVID were forced into the shadows. How are those patients being helped now?

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Their symptoms – debilitating tiredness, lung issues and non-specific pain – didn’t seem to fit together. Over 3 years into the pandemic, the medical community is still grappling with the question of treatment. Why has it remained such a mystery? Dr. Francesca Beaudoin, Director of the Long COVID Initiative and Chair of the department of epidemiology at Brown University, joins 5 Things to explain.

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24 comments

  1. For all the naysayers here … Just WAIT until you contract a mild to heavy case of COVID — then you won't be laughing and scoffing at others who are suffering!!!

  2. Count me as one of the millions of people with long Covid. It had trashed my nervous system. I can not work more than ten hrs a week. It’s robbed me of my strength. I am not the same person.

  3. Long COVID is real. The shot has affected this. So much disinformation from the medical community. The ingredients in Benydrly help but dr won't tell you. Diphenhydramine is what helps because you are experiencing a cytokinesis type storm in your body. Like an allergic reaction which is all about why Benadryl meds work. I am a witness to this.

  4. Is it possible that the covid virus is being blamed for vaccine damage? I have lost my ability to walk normally a few weeks after my first jab two years ago. I have never had a covid infection.

  5. great production and guest… 3+yrs of ME/CFS LC, Dr Beaudoin nails it, great SOTU… we should have seen LC coming – we must be prepared for future pandemic's long-haulers… yes, frustration from the lack of treatments and burning through $1.3 billion… we need centers of excellence… research funding…. more industry involvement…

  6. I know someone who had long COVID for 6 months, she finally tried Ivermectin and the symptoms resolved within 5 days – why do we still not see Ivermectin trials 3 years in when it seems to work???

  7. Vaccine did NOT STOP me from getting long Covid. I dont wish it on anyone

  8. I've had long hauler symptoms for over 2 years now with no improvement unless I take iv@rm@ctin weekly, if I stop taking it, I'm down in bed again unable to function. The long hauler headaches are horrible, last for days at a time, constant Headaches and NO medication helps these kind of headaches. I have learned that mushrooms do help these long hauler headaches, insomnia & appetite loss, if i micro dose daily, i dont get the headaches at all. The constant fatigue and tiredness is awful, i also have suffered from the terrible insomnia, weight/appetite loss, hair loss and bruising issues. This sucks and I do hope we can get more natural ways of treating our long hauler symptoms.

  9. Why don't you ask fake fauci who help make covid and made millions from
    vaccines . Also, why did FDA and CDC WANT to wait 55 years to find side effects from vaccines? Fauci screwed up about HIV?

  10. It's a side effect of the experimental vaccine.

  11. Can a vaccinated person actually get Covid-19 and not know it. I had a long lingering sinus/lung congestion, but it was only mildly bothersome, possibly allergy. Sound familiar to anyone?

  12. Long term heart muscle problem and nerve damage and wheelchair ridden and heart attack death and still COVID-19 infected you. Third vaccine update and what? Funeral

  13. Long COVID = vaxx side effects 🤦

  14. Had the democrats not made COVID-19 an anti-Trump political thing, we would have been given chloroquine and/or ivermectin and likely a million US deaths would have been prevented. SHAMEFUL!

  15. Americans still going on about their little experiment 😂

  16. It is synthetic ARN damaging your body, a mystery because of big pharma and corruption.

  17. why no word about me/cfs??

  18. Long Covid, aka, unknown side effects from an experimental, untested mRNA product?

  19. I can tell you're passionate about what you do. It shines through in your videos.

  20. Vague psychosomatic bullcrap reinforced by the mainstream media.