Facing a void of institutional research and clinical interventions, long COVID and other chronic illness sufferers are doing something remarkable: they're doing the science themselves.
This is a great article. I would like to see more science and research opened and honest again. The article reminded me of why I prefer ODs rather than MDs. I don't want to treat a symptom, I want to get at the root cause.
The law of unintended consequences is the root of much evil when it comes to funding of research and how large pharma behaves. No longer able to recoup intense amounts of money during R&D, they have been encouraged to do exactly what you describe. I would prefer that Federal funding of anything health, medical, pharma related be done more like the FFRDCs get funded. I also think the laws regarding patents went the wrong direction. We now have too much medicine produced in two specific countries that are no to our benefit.
It's good to see more citizen science. I personally have experienced the better side of it, where lives are positively impacted by the results. Where I have experienced this though, is a very different funding & management mechanism than what NIH does. (Go figure.)
This is a great overview of Long Covid research! One downside to the decentralized social media & citizen science response is chaotic and excessive information, which makes it hard to keep up with the latest “consensus”. This article is extremely helpful as a review and index of the current state of knowledge. Thank you for putting this together and sharing it.
This is what happens when a pharmaceutical developer gets long covid. Page down into his account to his post 100% recovered.
https://www.reddit.com/u/MoreThereThanHere/s/bbKMHOdiOT
This is a great article. I would like to see more science and research opened and honest again. The article reminded me of why I prefer ODs rather than MDs. I don't want to treat a symptom, I want to get at the root cause.
The law of unintended consequences is the root of much evil when it comes to funding of research and how large pharma behaves. No longer able to recoup intense amounts of money during R&D, they have been encouraged to do exactly what you describe. I would prefer that Federal funding of anything health, medical, pharma related be done more like the FFRDCs get funded. I also think the laws regarding patents went the wrong direction. We now have too much medicine produced in two specific countries that are no to our benefit.
It's good to see more citizen science. I personally have experienced the better side of it, where lives are positively impacted by the results. Where I have experienced this though, is a very different funding & management mechanism than what NIH does. (Go figure.)
This is a great overview of Long Covid research! One downside to the decentralized social media & citizen science response is chaotic and excessive information, which makes it hard to keep up with the latest “consensus”. This article is extremely helpful as a review and index of the current state of knowledge. Thank you for putting this together and sharing it.