A woman with COVID for a long time said her symptoms disappeared 36 hours after receiving her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to The Washington Post.
Arianna Eisenberg, 34, said she experienced muscle pain, insomnia, fatigue and mental confusion for eight months after becoming ill. These symptoms are typical of what became known as “COVID long”.
But 36 hours after receiving a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, his symptoms disappeared, the Publish reported.
Eisenberg’s story is one of several that describe a similar effect.
THE Philadelphia Inquirer and the Huffington Post also reported people for whom COVID’s symptoms improved for a long time 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 that they were feeling better after the vaccine.
In a YouTube video, Gez Medinger, a science journalist who reports on Long COVID, did a survey of 473 long haulers among support groups on Facebook, The Verge reported, about a third of whom saw their symptoms improve after the vaccination.
A small study from the University of Bristol in the UK, which has not been peer-reviewed, looked at the administration of vaccines to people with long symptoms of COVID-19, according to the Washington Post report.
The scientists gave the vaccine to 44 COVID long-haulers and compared their reaction to a group of long-haulers who did not get the vaccine.
They reported that those who received the vaccine had “a small general improvement in long-term COVID symptoms”.
However, the authors said that this may be due to the placebo effect.
This is just one of a series of intriguing reports around the long COVID.
On March 3, Kaiser Health News reported that a 15-year-old dancer developed COPD, a disease that is commonly seen in older people, after contracting COVID-19 last summer.
As reported by Aria Bendix of Insider, scientists also cannot explain why the majority of people who develop long COVID are women, although some scientists think it may be because women tend to have stronger immune responses than men.
Recovery clinics for patients with COVID have long been opening, reported Sophia Ankel of Insider.
But the condition is still not well understood. The United States National Institutes of Health received more than $ 1 ($ 1) billion from Congress to investigate the long COVID.
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