Don’t Believe the Feds’ Fearmongering about Long COVID; Risks of Long COVID have been ‘distorted’ Due to ‘flawed research’: Study, and other C-Virus related stories
NY POST: Don’t believe the feds’ fearmongering about long COVID:
CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is spreading misinformation telling Americans the new updated COVID vaccine prevents long COVID.
What she doesn’t say is Pfizer’s new COVID vaccine was Food and Drug Administration-approved two weeks ago based on data from 10 mice, and there is absolutely no evidence it reduces long-COVID risk.
In fact, the new vaccine lacks any clinical-outcomes data whatsoever.
The nation’s chief drug regulator, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, has made similar claims about vaccines reducing long COVID risk despite zero scientific data to support the claim.
If Pfizer made such a statement, it would normally be fined by the FDA for making a marketing claim beyond its approved indication.
But not this FDA. (In the event of a government shutdown, FDA says it will retain 998 employees to work on the COVID response, but it’s unclear what these people are doing.)
It’s amazing public-health officials are still citing flawed studies to stir up fear, sternly warning all Americans that 20% of COVID infections can result in long COVID, as if it’s a lightning strike that indiscriminately disables one in five people.
It’s not. —>READ MORE HERE
NY POST: Risks of long COVID have been ‘distorted’ due to ‘flawed research’: study
The risks of long COVID have been “distorted” due to a flawed body of research, according to experts.
Scientists from the US, UK and Denmark are pointing to overly broad definitions and a lack of comparison groups, among other factors in studies looking at the incidence, prevalence and control of long COVID for the distortion.
The paper, published Monday in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, investigates the working definitions of the condition provided by multiple global health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the UK National Institute for Health.
None of the definitions required a “causal link” between the virus and a range of symptoms.
The “flaws” have led to consequences such as increased public anxiety, misdiagnoses, increased health-care spending and a “diversion of funds” from those who are actually suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19, researchers suggest.
“Ultimately, biomedicine must seek to aid all people who are suffering. In order to do so, the best scientific methods and analysis must be applied. Inappropriate definitions and flawed methods do not serve those whom medicine seeks to help,” the study authors wrote in the paper.
Some of the repercussions of being infected with COVID-19 include shortness of breath following pneumonia and post-ICU syndrome, an array of health conditions that are present while in intensive care and persist after discharge — but experts pointed out that these symptoms are very commonly associated with many upper respiratory viruses. —>READ MORE HERE
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