{"id":5981,"date":"2024-02-27T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2024-02-27T19:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:53:45","slug":"shining-a-light-on-long-covid-a-vicious-affliction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/27\/shining-a-light-on-long-covid-a-vicious-affliction\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a Light on Long Covid, a \u2018Vicious Affliction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/27\/opinion\/long-covid.html\">NYT Opinion<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like one of the people you interviewed, I, too, was an \u201cEnergizer bunny\u201d before I contracted Covid. I worked as many as 18 hours a day for an aerospace company, got A\u2019s in my grad school classes, ran my own nonprofit and served on the board of directors of several other nonprofits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, two active Covid infections within three months \u2014 in June and August of 2022 \u2014 left me virtually bedridden with long Covid for 18 months. I wasn\u2019t able to complete my master\u2019s degree on time, had to accept a demotion at work (as an accommodation for my infirmity), and am in further danger of losing my job entirely if my health does not improve soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To add insult to injury, there are too many dismissive doctors who treat long Covid in an ineffective manner and believe that long Covid is largely a psychological issue. That just smacks of gaslighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need strong, consistent funding and relentless, targeted research to identify effective diagnostic testing and successful therapies. We need to require insurance companies to fund experimental or off-label usage of pharmaceuticals and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4336979\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nutraceuticals<\/a>&nbsp;(food products with health benefits). We, the sick, need help.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Opinion Like one of the people you interviewed, I, too, was an \u201cEnergizer bunny\u201d before I contracted Covid. I worked as many as 18 hours a day for an aerospace company, got A\u2019s in my grad school classes, ran my own nonprofit and served on the board of directors of several other nonprofits. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}