Black Women Fighting for recognition as Long Covid Patients
Apr 13, 2021 19:08:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 19:08:32 GMT
An article has been published in TIME regarding this subject.
here is a brief extract followed by a link
When COVID-19 hit last year, and case clusters began popping up in Black communities, Jenkins, now 71, braced herself for another fight. She knew that, since ME/CFS can follow viral illnesses, COVID-19 could be a mass trigger. She also knew that, particularly in communities of color, many patients would have no idea why they weren’t getting better after a couple weeks. “I knew they were not going to be reached,” she says.
She ended up being right on both counts. Researchers now believe at least 10% of COVID-19 patients develop long-term symptoms, including some that sound identical to those associated with ME/CFS: constant fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, chronic pain, gastrointestinal distress and more, many of which worsen after exertion. Some researchers now believe the conditions are one and the same, and some Long COVID patients who have been sick at least six months meet diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS.
The data about Long COVID prevalence, and who is likely to get it, are still coming together, but some studies have found that the condition is more common among women than men. Women of color have also caught COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. So it’s logical to assume that many Long COVID sufferers are women of color. But, just as Jenkins feared, many patients of color had no idea what was happening to them after they got sick. Cynthia Adinig, a 35-year-old Long COVID patient from Virginia, was one.
She says she felt blindsided when she learned, months into her illness, that the medical establishment has known about ME/CFS and other post-viral conditions for decades, but said little about COVID-19’s potential to trigger them. “We were not prepared,” she says. “Why did no one warn us? Why was no one saying this” could happen?
time.com/5954132/black-women-long-covid/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_term=health_covid-19
Lettuce here, I wanted to post this to raise awareness it is kind of a spin-off to another thread that I have recently contributed to you with more information regarding harms to patients.
2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/119870/covid-patients-get-neuropsychiatric-problems
I am taking a little break away from 2peas For now for health reasons but look forward to coming back soon,
in the meantime I apologise for not contributing further to this thread but I have left plenty of information on the other thread that I hope may be useful.
here is a brief extract followed by a link
When COVID-19 hit last year, and case clusters began popping up in Black communities, Jenkins, now 71, braced herself for another fight. She knew that, since ME/CFS can follow viral illnesses, COVID-19 could be a mass trigger. She also knew that, particularly in communities of color, many patients would have no idea why they weren’t getting better after a couple weeks. “I knew they were not going to be reached,” she says.
She ended up being right on both counts. Researchers now believe at least 10% of COVID-19 patients develop long-term symptoms, including some that sound identical to those associated with ME/CFS: constant fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, chronic pain, gastrointestinal distress and more, many of which worsen after exertion. Some researchers now believe the conditions are one and the same, and some Long COVID patients who have been sick at least six months meet diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS.
The data about Long COVID prevalence, and who is likely to get it, are still coming together, but some studies have found that the condition is more common among women than men. Women of color have also caught COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. So it’s logical to assume that many Long COVID sufferers are women of color. But, just as Jenkins feared, many patients of color had no idea what was happening to them after they got sick. Cynthia Adinig, a 35-year-old Long COVID patient from Virginia, was one.
She says she felt blindsided when she learned, months into her illness, that the medical establishment has known about ME/CFS and other post-viral conditions for decades, but said little about COVID-19’s potential to trigger them. “We were not prepared,” she says. “Why did no one warn us? Why was no one saying this” could happen?
time.com/5954132/black-women-long-covid/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_term=health_covid-19
Lettuce here, I wanted to post this to raise awareness it is kind of a spin-off to another thread that I have recently contributed to you with more information regarding harms to patients.
2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/119870/covid-patients-get-neuropsychiatric-problems
I am taking a little break away from 2peas For now for health reasons but look forward to coming back soon,
in the meantime I apologise for not contributing further to this thread but I have left plenty of information on the other thread that I hope may be useful.
