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'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.
Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty.
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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 12 2020, @07:32PM (2 children)
OTOH, there is also evidence, how definitive I don't know, that blacks/negros/AfricanAmericans (except the source was British)/whatever-name-you-prefer metabolize vitamin D differently than Caucasians do. It didn't mention orientals, etc. It didn't say in what way they were different, but merely suggested that using the same yardstick might be a bad idea. (IOW, it didn't have an alternative suggestion. It did suggest that lower levels might not be a problem, but gave no reasoning or evidence.)
Sometimes the needed evidence isn't available. But keeping your levels of Vitamin D up seems like a good idea...just don't overdo it, because that also has it's problems.
Anyone who is dogmatic about ANY of these points is a fool. The evidence isn't there to support the claim. But the evidence for moderate levels of various vitamins and minerals is pretty strong, and SOME people benefit from doing so. (OTOH, there's also evidence that viruses often do better in people who are "well-nourished", but that term was not defined in the report I read. So perhaps that just meant overweight.)
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @07:56PM (1 child)
Anyone dogmatic about trying vitamin c for someone with low vitamin c levels and symptoms of scurvy is a fool?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @06:10AM
More like a vitamin C addict, snorting lemons and oranges. Get help.