Researchers found the risks associated with acute COVID-19 infection significantly outweighed the rare risk of post-vaccine myocarditis in young adults.
woman or older age groups. even those without symptoms, there will be some percentage that will go on to develop long covid. it is a fascinating mechanism. we ll have to get ready even after this pandemic ends. we don t know how long long covid will last. will it be for years? we re really not gearing up our health system to get ready for it. one doctor who specializes in internal medicine, we are seeing the coronavirus itself interact with almost every single part of the human body which is injure so atypical for most diseases. particularly most viruses. it can work in the blood stream to cause you to be more likely to get a blood clot. for other people that coronavirus is attacking the nerves, unquote. is there a treatment for these long covid symptoms? this is something people are hook at. the mechanisms range from auto antibodies and activating a cell in the body. there is a lot going on at yale
long covid. the four factors include the level of covid rna in the blood early in the infection, the presence of certain auto-antibodies, the reactivation of epstein bar virus which infects most people when they are young and then usually becomes dormant and having type two diabetes. the study followed more than 200 patients for two to three months after their covid diagnosis. it is brutal long covid. we really feel for those who suffer from it. still ahead the first member of team usa tests positive for covid, but there s still a chance they can compete in beijing. and the hornets make it rain in indianapolis. their amazing point total is coming up in sports. way too early coming right back. t total is coming up in sports. way too early coming right way too early coming right back takes everything you ve got taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot
if the team find signs of these damaging auto antibodies, then diagnostic tests and treatments could follow. but while we wait for science to catch up with this new disease, how long might our symptoms last? you know, is this a six month problem or a one year problem or a five year problem or a forever problem? none of us know. if you asked me to kind of, you know, place my bets from things that i know about other related, kind of post viral immunological effects, i d be disappointed if most people with long covid weren t better or feeling quite a lot better within two or three years max, i hope. that s a long time to feel as ill, as many of us do. it could mean many thousands of people are off work for years, a significant impact on the economy and the nhs. my guesstimate is that the healthcare needs for those people run in to the billions,
per day in the coming months and we re saying that ten to 20% of all infections can result in long covid, i can see no certainty that we re not brewing those long covid cases despite having a vaccinated population. but professor altman says there could be some good news from the early findings of his research. his team is analysing the blood of long covid patients for signs of autoantibodies which attack healthy cells. the pilot data we have says that you really can pick up different patterns of autoimmunity in people who have long covid, so, you know, it s the start of the road but we re quite chuffed about it. it s only a small study and more research is needed. but having identified these autoantibodies, they hope it ll be easier to diagnose this form of long covid in the future. i m famously optimistic,